Boat Model
2003-43-143
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 2003-43-143 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Nanai | Orochi |
Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
Culture Area | Siberia |
Section | American |
Materials | Wood | Birch Bark | Plant Fiber |
Technique | Carved | Folded |
Iconography | Boat |
Description | Canoe of birch bark folded over a frame of bent splint wood; wooden gunwale nailed and lashed (with vegetable fiber twine) to either side of birch bark and frame. |
Height | 7 cm |
Length | 55.9 cm |
Width | 13 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1899.1.143 - Other Number | 378/17 - Other Number | 5 (Civic Center, 1957) - Other Number |
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