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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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