Boat Model
2003-43-147A
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 2003-43-147A |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Nivkh | Orok |
Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
Culture Area | Siberia |
Section | American |
Materials | Wood | Paint | Vegetable Fiber |
Technique | Carved | Lashed | Painted |
Description | Model of boat carved from single piece of wood, flat bottom, tapering to points at bow and stern; gunwales lashed to either side with vegetable fiber rope support oarlocks on top and two thwarts along the side; the interior and exterior are crudely painted in gray, the thwarts and gunwales in red; one oar and pole, painted red, accompany model. |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1899.1.147a/c - Other Number | 74-1-131 - Other Number | 181 - Other Number | 3 (Civic Center 1957) - Other Number | Y112 - Other Number |
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