Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
May 26, 1791
Primary Source Reference:
Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 26 May 1791
Additional Source Text:
"Those vessels are made large enough to hold 60 men."
Also listed in the General Advertiser (Philadelphia), 26 May 1791; Independent Gazetteer (Philadelphia), 28 May 1791; Osborne's New-Hampshire Spy, 8 Jun 1791; and Maryland Gazette (Annapolis), 9 June 1791
Notes:
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, acquired a number of canoe models in 1899 from the Boston Museum, some of which may have come from the Peale Museum. A representative example is pictured here.
