Canoe Mallet
| Object Number: | 37-23-26 |
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| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Penobscot |
| Provenience: | United States of America Maine Oldtown |
| Culture Area: | Northeast Culture Area |
| Date Made: | ca. 1900 |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Wood |
| Length: | 32.4 cm |
| Width: | 11 cm |
| Thickness: | 8 cm |
| Credit Line: | Gift of Samuel W. Fernberger, 1937 |
Description
Wooden. Head, plano-convex oval with one side flattened; nearly cylindrical grip carved with sockets for fingers and thumb. Used for beating ribs on birch-bark canoes into place. Battered socket on plane face struck the wedge or punch; flattened side facilitated direct used of mallet in pointed ends of canoe. Now rare, if not unique tool.
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