Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of J. Frank Anderson (d. 1914, a New York insurance underwriter); presented by him to the Long Island Historical Society in 1882; lent by the Long Island Historical Society to MAI in 1920; donated to NMAI by the Brooklyn Historical Society in 2020.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Baffinland Inuit
- Previous owner
- J. Frank Anderson, Non-Indian
- Long Island Historical Society (Brooklyn Historical Society [after 1985])
- Donor
- Long Island Historical Society (Brooklyn Historical Society [after 1985])
- Object Name
- Kayak model with figure
- Media/Materials
- Wood, hide, cotton cloth, wooden beads
- Techniques
- Carved, stretched, sewn, strung
- Object Type
- Watercraft and accessories
