Copper Boat Or Float (Muth)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 May 1963
name: label: Collector
content: Ethel-Jane W. Bunting
label: Donor Name
content: Ethel-Jane W. Bunting
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Deep hollow disk of copper with 17.5 cm opening in the top. Made of sheets of copper with edges cut in sections, alternately overlapping the adjacent piece and hammered together. Edge of hole bound in cloth to protect fisherman who lies stomach down on it and paddles around his set lines. Though similar baked clay ones used in rivers, where fish are carried inside, these are not used this way exclusive to this lake. Made on order in Hyderabad and Karachi markets. Refer to: Nigeria (Mag) no. 38, 195 to 182 for similar calabash boats on Zaria R. Dahomey, Singer, Ch. & Holmyand, E. "History of Technology, VI, p. 736 for history of similar ones from Near East."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Aug 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Thatta / Keenjhar Lake (Kalri Lake), Sindh, Pakistan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 242185
label: USNM Number
content: E399922-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Float