МАЭ № 2888-33/1

Model of a single-hatched kayak

Kodiak Eskimos

prior to 1842

wood, sealskin, caribou hair, woolen thread, cotton thread, ivory

length 66 cm, width 10.6 cm, height with the figure 13.7 cm, height of the hull 6.5 cm, height of the nose 8.5 cm

In this model kayak and in model No. 536-11 there are carved wooden figures of hunters wearing conical wooden headgear, conical hats with the top portion open. Hats of this type are known only from the representations in these models; there are no such original hats found in the ethnographic collections.

Ethnography of America