Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 1, 1812
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 62
Notes:
This artifact was probably from what is now Great Sitkin Island, one of the Andreanof Islands off the coast of Alaska in the Bering Sea. Peter Vasyutinsky, a member of the Russian exploring party of 1760-1764, called it Chetkin Island. Frank S. Simons and Donald E. Mathewson, Geology of Great Sitkin Island Alaska (Washington, DC, 1955), pp. 22-23
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. This object may have looked like the one pictured here.
