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Birch bark canoe
Object Number 29-33-10/98432
Display Title Birch bark canoe
Descriptions
Inventory Description Canoe, birchbark, wooden gunwales, woven seat at stern, four thwarts, flaps either side of bow and of stern, losses of resin at seams, metal screws
Classification
  • Canoe
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Eastern Abenaki
  • Penobscot
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Maine / Penobscot County / Indian Island / Old Town
Materials Birchbark , Wood , Resin , Metal Ash Cedar
Dimensions Overall (Depth is height of canoe at middle): 541.0211 × 90.1702 × 27.9401 cm (213 × 35 1/2 × 11 in.) Distance (Measurement taken in 2000 or 2001 of one end?): 53.34 cm (21 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 98432
Credit Line Gift of Dr. John C. Phillips, 1929
Provenance
Collector Dr. John C. Phillips (1912)
Donor Dr. John C. Phillips (1929)

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