Kayak model

Museum number:
2-18873a-c
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210218873a@2dc
Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
(a) Kayak model, 2 hatch, wood frame, rawhide cover. (b-c) 2 human figures each holding a double-bladed paddle, both made of cloth with features embroidered in blue. (b) Wears white and light blue stripe cotton shirt and red worsted muffler, blades of paddle painted black. (c) wears blue shirt with brown worsted muffler and carries blue painted paddle.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Unalaska, Unalaska Island, Fox Islands
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Aleutian Islands; Unalaska
Culture or time period:
Aleut
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1934
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Kayaks and Models (concepts)
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Context of use:
I think rather late artifact, made for sale" (fide Lydia Black, 1982).
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
38 centimeters
Comment:
Note: "Konia and Chugach used single bladed paddles" (fide Lydia Black, 1982). References: cf. Adney & Chapelle, p. 196, fig. 178 for Unalaska kayaks.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-18873a-c, described as (a) Kayak model, 2 hatch, wood frame, rawhide cover. (b-c) 2 human figures each holding a double-bladed paddle, both made of cloth with features embroidered in blue. (b) Wears white and light blue stripe cotton shirt and red worsted muffler, blades of paddle painted black. (c) wears blue shirt with brown worsted muffler and carries blue painted paddle.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-18873a-c, described as (a) Kayak model, 2 hatch, wood frame, rawhide cover. (b-c) 2 human figures each holding a double-bladed paddle, both made of cloth with features embroidered in blue. (b) Wears white and light blue stripe cotton shirt and red worsted muffler, blades of paddle painted black. (c) wears blue shirt with brown worsted muffler and carries blue painted paddle.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-18873a-c, described as (a) Kayak model, 2 hatch, wood frame, rawhide cover. (b-c) 2 human figures each holding a double-bladed paddle, both made of cloth with features embroidered in blue. (b) Wears white and light blue stripe cotton shirt and red worsted muffler, blades of paddle painted black. (c) wears blue shirt with brown worsted muffler and carries blue painted paddle.

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