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Object Number 2012.14.1
Display Title Kayak model with passenger, paddle and fishing gear
Descriptions
Object Description One-hatch kayak model of wood frame with thin, mottled covering; passenger of wood with carved face and cork-shaped body, legless, leather arms holding wood paddle with bone ends; gear attached to kayak with sinew consists of wooden spear, wooden harpoon with bone foreshaft, wooden item in leather sheath
Inventory Description Kayak model, wood framed, stitched skin, hollowed cockpit, removable figure holding paddle, tied wood extension, paddle, threaded bone
Classification
  • Kayak
  • Model
Department Ethnographic
Date 1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Greenland Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Greenland
Dimensions Other: 6.3 x 14.7 x 42 cm (2 1/2 x 5 13/16 x 16 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2012.14.1
Credit Line Gift of Edmund J. Peshin
Provenance
Collector Edmund J. Peshin (1942)
Donor Donated by Edmund J. Peshin (1942-2012)

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