Sled
Model
2003-43-119
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-119 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Hide | Plant Fiber | Iron |
| Technique | Carved | Lashed | Drilled |
| Description | A wooden model of five dog open sled; carved, pointed runners (2) curved up in front to support crossbar and bowed front; bed consists of two planks which are secured by vegetable fiber rope bindings to three horizontal supports which are pegged to three pairs of legs rising from runners; legs are lashed to runners with raw hide; bent twig arch spans sled above first pair of legs; sidebars and bowed back rest of bent twigs are hitched to holes in rim of sled with vegetable fiber twine. The harness for open five dog sled; each individual harness of split rawhide attached for forged iron swivel ring which is knotted to main rope steering control. |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.119 - Other Number |
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