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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
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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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39-118-10/18670 | Birch bark canoe |
Canoe
|
Maine
| |
| 96-22-10/50820.1 | Paddle belonging to birch canoe 96-22-10/50820 |
Paddle
|
Old Town
| |
| 29-32-10/98428 | Birch bark canoe |
Maine
| ||
| 72-29-10/7128 | Birch bark canoe |
Eastport
| ||
| 96-22-10/50820 | Birchbark canoe |
Old Town
| ||
| 22-14-10/97938 | Birch bark canoe |
Canada
| ||
| 72-29-10/7128.1 | Paddle (1 of 2) belonging to canoe 72-29-10/7128 |
Paddle
|
Eastport
| |
| 98-8-70/51836 | Canoe, wood plank, bonito-fishing, 24' long |
Canoe
|
San Cristobal?
| |
| 22-14-10/97938.1 | Paddle belonging to canoe 22-14-10/97938 |
Paddle
|
Canada
| |
| 04-26-10/63479 | Canoe model. Birchbark, sewn with sinew. Rounded bow and stern |
Canoe
|
New Brunswick
| |
| 94-19-10/51055 | Canoe model, birch, with double curve decoration. |
Canoe
|
United States
| |
|
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for Sea-going canoe--20 ft. long and of birch bark
| 35-123-10/5207 | Sea-going canoe--20 ft. long and of birch bark |
Maine
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