Kayak model

Museum number:
2-2092
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Single hatch, wood frame, rawhide cover. 8 fixtures include: harpoon with ivory point and foreshaft, metal tip, rawhide line; 2 spears with metal tips and sinew line; 1 paddle decorated with red painted geometric design, crossbar handle; harpoon with ivory foreshaft and barbed ivory point and mat of wood slats.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Kotzebue Sound, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Kotzebue Sound
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
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 81 centimeters
Comment:
References: cf. Nelson, p. 220, pl. LXXIX, fig. 3.
Loans:
S1993-1994 #14: SFO Museum (March 22, 1994–September 20, 1994)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-2092, described as Single hatch, wood frame, rawhide cover. 8 fixtures include: harpoon with ivory point and foreshaft, metal tip, rawhide line; 2 spears with metal tips and sinew line; 1 paddle decorated with red painted geometric design, crossbar handle; harpoon with ivory foreshaft and barbed ivory point and mat of wood slats.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-2092, described as Single hatch, wood frame, rawhide cover. 8 fixtures include: harpoon with ivory point and foreshaft, metal tip, rawhide line; 2 spears with metal tips and sinew line; 1 paddle decorated with red painted geometric design, crossbar handle; harpoon with ivory foreshaft and barbed ivory point and mat of wood slats.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-2092, described as Single hatch, wood frame, rawhide cover. 8 fixtures include: harpoon with ivory point and foreshaft, metal tip, rawhide line; 2 spears with metal tips and sinew line; 1 paddle decorated with red painted geometric design, crossbar handle; harpoon with ivory foreshaft and barbed ivory point and mat of wood slats.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-2092, described as Single hatch, wood frame, rawhide cover. 8 fixtures include: harpoon with ivory point and foreshaft, metal tip, rawhide line; 2 spears with metal tips and sinew line; 1 paddle decorated with red painted geometric design, crossbar handle; harpoon with ivory foreshaft and barbed ivory point and mat of wood slats.

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