snow boat

snow boat

snow boat

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Introduction

Small boat carved in wood for snow boat game. Label affixed to top reads "snow boat / used in game / Seneca - Iroquois / 1848". Collected by Lewis Henry Morgan.

Nation of Maker: Seneca
Nation of Origin

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Date Made or Date Range: 1848
Materials

wood

Techniques or Format

Shallow oval carved out of the centre, with wooden dowel running across it lengthwise, inserted into 2 holes. Broken dowel and hole at one end (where a flag might have been inserted?). Carved with concave curve on one end and opposite curve on other end (not symmetrical, navigational?)

Description of Writing/Text

Label affixed to top reads "snow boat / used in game / Seneca - Iroquois / 1848". In Morgan's handwriting according to museum catalogue documentation.

Dimensions: 43 × 7 × 5 cm
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

date noted on object

Current Location: Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, NY, USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 70.89.42
Collection at Current Location: Lewis Henry Morgan Collection
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1970
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: University of Rochester
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 1848
Previous Collectors: Lewis Henry Morgan
Collection Narratives and Histories

Visit to Rochester Museum and Science Center (Rochester, NY) of Wahsontiio Cross, Kate Higginson, Alexandra Nahwegahbow, Melissa Otis, Ruth Phillips and Paula Whitlow, assisted by Jamie Jacobs and Kathryn Murano on 2-3 May 2016.

GKS Reference Number: 45192
Record Creation Context

Collected by Lewis Henry Morgan in 1840s in New York State and bequeathed to the University of Rochester (U of R) upon his death in 1881. The collection was transferred from the U of R to the Rochester Museum in 1970.

Approximate Place of Origin

44.736, -88.788

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