Donor Name:

Atomic Energy Commission  Search this

Length:

67.95 cm

Object Type:

Canoe Model

Place:

Kapingamarangi Atoll, Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia

Accession Date:

19 Jul 1961

Notes:

From catalog card: "Is the Nukuoro type being made today on Kapingamarangi. Identical in all respects to fig. 115, p. 192, in Hiroa, "Material Culture of Kapingamarangi," Bishop Museum Bull. 200, 1950; the one illustrated in Eilers, "Inseln um Ponape", P. 235, has two false booms fewer and lacks the unbranched fork of the last boom."

Record Last Modified:

24 Apr 2022

Specimen Count:

1

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

237062

USNM Number:

E398955-0

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Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3f7f43dea-f1d5-4ae8-9530-e462e5df913b

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8427189