Canoe-Paddle Item Number: E73544-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "Loan: Crossroads Sep 22 1988. Loan returned: Jan 21 1993. Illus.: Crossroads of Continents catalogue; Fig. 190, p. 157." Identified in photo caption as "Steering Paddle, Haida. Long, broad-bladed paddles were used by the steersman of large traveling canoes. Crew paddles were shorter and more pointed. Designs on paddles related to the design on the canoe, this one being an octopus with long, sucker-lined tentacles. The paddle is made of tough yellow cedar."
Item History
- Made in Howkan, Long Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in Howkan, Long Island, Alaska, USA
- Received from Rev. J L. Gould during 1884
What
- Name
- Canoe-Paddle
- Identification Number
- E73544-0
- Type of Item
- canoe paddle
Who
- Culture
- Haida ?
- Received from
- Rev. J L. Gould
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Howkan, Long Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Howkan, Long Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1884
Other
- Accession Number
- 014917