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Object Number
72-29-10/7128
Display Title
Birch bark canoe
Descriptions
Object Description
Birch canoe with 2 paddles & spear. Canoe is made of birch bark. The seams of the bark are stitched together with split root and sealed with pine or spruce pitch. There are 5 thwarts which are tennoned at their ends and lashed with split root into mortises in the gunwales. One of the headboards is missing.There are two distinctive, small rectangular patches of bark on the hull (due to native repair or are they original?) The catalog # (7128) is written on the middle thwart.
Two paddles, also numbered 76-45-10/7128, go with the canoe.Dimensions: one paddle at 184.8cm x 15.2cm x 3.2cm, one paddle at 170.2cm x 14cm x 3.2cm
*No spear was found with the canoe. (THIS INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED DURING THE WATERCRAFT RESTORAGE PROJECT, 9/2000)
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1800-1872
Culture
- Passamaquoddy
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Maine
/
Washington County
/
Eastport
Dimensions
Overall: 204 1/2 × 33 1/2 × 17 in. (17.04 × 2.79 × 1.42 Ft)
Provenance
Collector
G. A. Peabody
(ca. 1870 - 1872)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72-29-10/7128.1 | Paddle (1 of 2) belonging to canoe 72-29-10/7128 |
Paddle
|
Eastport
| |
| 72-29-10/7128.2 | Paddle (1 of 2) belonging to canoe 72-29-10/7128 |
Paddle
|
Eastport
| |
| 96-22-10/50820.1 | Paddle belonging to birch canoe 96-22-10/50820 |
Paddle
|
Old Town
| |
| 96-22-10/50820 | Birchbark canoe |
Old Town
| ||
| 22-14-10/97938 | Birch bark canoe |
Canada
| ||
| 22-14-10/97938.1 | Paddle belonging to canoe 22-14-10/97938 |
Paddle
|
Canada
| |
| 29-32-10/98428 | Birch bark canoe |
Maine
| ||
| 985-27-10/60325 | Birch bark canoe |
New York
| ||
|
Image Not Available
for Debris from canoe
| 72-29-10/7128.3 | Debris from canoe |
Floral
|
Eastport
| |
|
Media Restricted
| 08-4-10/72940 | Model of trading canoe |
Shaft, modified
Sculpture |
British Columbia
| |
| 99-12-10/52978 | Model of birch canoe |
Carving
|
North America
| |
| 39-118-10/18670 | Birch bark canoe |
Canoe
|
Maine
|