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THIS BOAT IS DIV. OF ENGINEERING #76314. WHEN IT CAME TO ANTHROPOLOGY FROM ENGINEERING IT APPEARS NEVER TO HAVE BEEN GIVEN AN ANTHROPOLOGY CATALOG NUMBER. AFTER CONSERVATION TREATMENT, IT WAS CALLED C1296. HOWEVER, IT HAS #760353 (OR 160353) PAINTED ON IT. AS 160353 IS AN UNUSED NUMBER IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY BOAT SERIES, THIS BOAT HAS BEEN CALLED THIS NUMBER FOR NOW TO IDENTIFY IT. - F. PICKERING AND A. THOMSON 9-30-1998. FROM COLLINS' SMITHSONIAN BOAT COLLECTION MS. P. 896: "USED BY THE INDIANS OF SOUTHERN ALASKA. FULL SIZE. AN OPEN, ROUND BOTTOM, KEELESS, DUGOUT CANOE; FLARING SIDES; SHARP HOLLOW RAKING ENDS, PROJECTING UPWARDS; MODERATE SHEER, BROKEN BY REFLEX CURVE AT ENDS; PAINTED BLACK WITH EXCEPTION OF RED AND WHITE TRANSVERSE STRIPES NEAR EXTREME ENDS. PLACE FOR MAST NEAR BOW." ACCESSION RECORD DESCRIBES IT AS "MEDIUM RIGED DUGOUT PAINTED BLACK." ACCESSION RECORD INDICATES IT WAS ONE OF TWO CANOES COLLECTED BY LT. GEORGE THORNTON EMMONS U.S.N., IN SOUTHEAST ALASKA, FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S EXHIBITION (INTERIOR DEPARTMENT'S ALASKA DISPLAY) AT THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, CHICAGO, 1893. THE OTHER CANOE IS # 168115. COLLECTION DATE FOR CANOE 160353 IS PRESUMED TO BE CA. 1891 OR BEFORE, AS IT WAS FOR 168115. COMPUTER CATALOG DATA RECORD CREATED BASED ON ACCESSION RECORD, COLLINS MS. AND RECORD FOR BOAT #168115.No catalog card was made for this object.