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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
- Penobscot
- Eastern Abenaki
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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