Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
July 21, 1813
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 68
Additional Source Text:
The donor was "of Chester, Pa."
Notes:
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, Harvard University, acquired in 1899 many cultural items from Moses Kimball's Boston Museum. Kimball and P. T. Barnum jointly purchased many of the Peale collections when they were sold about 1849. These were likely model canoes, which may have resembled this one at the Peabody (Object number: 99-12-10/53095).
Thomas Robinson (1768-1847) was a merchant sea captain and lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812.
