canoe;
model
- Museum number
- Am1996,11.1
- Description
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Canoe model of birchbark, with splint lining, and carved thwarts, gunwales, attached with iron [?] pins, and later commercial twine binding. The relatively sharp bow and stern [profiles] are bound with split root [?]; the hull is decorated in an all-over scratched design, assymetrical, but mostly bold double-curve motif designs, including on one side lanceolate leaves filled with cross-hatching.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 9 centimetres
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Length: 46 centimetres
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Width: 10.25 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Purchased with funds donated by Morton I and Estelle Sosland.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Extremely poor: the bark is cracked and broken, although mostly present. The gunwale is coming away from the hull. Overall: terminal but stable.
- Acquisition date
- 1996
- Acquisition notes
- Presented by Estelle and Morton Sosland.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1996,11.1
