Toboggan
Sled
62-10-1
From: Canada | Fort Chino (uncertain) | Boise Bay (uncertain) | Labrador
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 62-10-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Naskapi |
| Provenience | Canada | Fort Chino (uncertain) | Boise Bay (uncertain) | Labrador |
| Culture Area | Subarctic Culture Area |
| Date Made | 1935-1939 CE |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Larch (uncertain) |
| Description | Two planks of wood (larch?) with five red-painted cross-bars. Lashings and lines mostly babiche or cut deerhide: little commercial cordage. Deeply curved "prow" decorated with: 3 red marks on each edge; vertical band of red diamond-shaped patterns outlined by babiche sewing which lashes the 2 planks together (red paint also where lashes show on undersurface); similar horizontal band of diamonds where top-most brace is attached; red line on either side of this band; markings said to be magical by collector. Prow end tapered above ground level. Wax on bottom added by Mr. Wheeler. |
| Height | 35.5 cm |
| Length | 249 cm |
| Width | 29.9 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Dr. and Mrs. C. P. Wheeler, 2nd, 1962 |
| Other Number | CG2017-7-120 - Found in Collection Number |
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