Sled
Model
2003-43-118
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-118 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Birch Bark | Vegetable Fiber |
| Technique | Carved | Lashed |
| Description | Carved wooden model of sled; runners curve up at front end held in place by a bentwood crossbar and lashing; the bed, supported by eight legs rising from runners, consists of two parallel side slats and center panel supported below by four bentwood crossbars attached to the legs; birch bark is piled on sled bed and secured with vegetable fiber twine. |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.118 - Other Number | 167 (Civic Center, 1957) - Other Number |
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