Kayak model
- Museum number:
- 2-2078
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020002078
- Accession number:
- Acc.46
- Description:
- Wood frame, rawhide cover, single hatch. 4 bone rests on foreward deck attached to rawhide thongs. 5 fixtures include: 1 double bladed paddle, unpainted; 1 single-bladed paddle, painted red; 3 harpoons with ivory barbed points, sinew lashings.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Norton Sound, Nome Borough, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Norton Sound Eskimo
- Collector:
- Charles L. Hall
- Collection date:
- ca. 1895
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Kayaks and Models (concepts)
- Function:
- 1.4 Transportation and 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
- Accession date:
- August 12, 1902
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 84 centimeters
- Comment:
- References: cf. Adney and Chapelle, p. 198, fig. 182 Norton Sound kayaks. Is noted as exchanged to Logan Museum and then returned in 1963.
- Legacy documentation:
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