Kayak. Distribution of this style of kayak: from Point Barrrow south to Kotzebue Sound. Point Barrow attributed; refer Adney and Chapelle: The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America; Smithsonian Institution 1964, figures 187-190. Identified by John D. Heath (1965) as Kotzebue Sound type. one-hatch; wood frame covered with skin.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Kotzebue Sound, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Kotzebue Sound
Culture or time period:
Kotzebue Sound Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1898
Materials:
Skin (collagenous material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Kayaks
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
1.5;Used for transportation and hunting
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
530 centimeters, 47.6 centimeters, width 27 pounds, and 22 centimeters
Comment:
References: Adney and Chapelle: The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of America; Smithsonian Inst. 1964, fig. 187, 189, 190. Nelson Pl. LXXIX:6 and text pp. 220-221. Zimmerly Drawing in Acc. Env.