Canoe Mallet
37-23-26
From: United States of America | Maine | Oldtown
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 37-23-26 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Penobscot |
| Provenience | United States of America | Maine | Oldtown |
| Culture Area | Northeast Culture Area |
| Date Made | ca. 1900 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood |
| Description | Wooden. Head, plano-convex oval with one side flattened; nearly cylindrical grip carved with sockets for fingers and thumb. Used for beating ribs on birch-bark canoes into place. Battered socket on plane face struck the wedge or punch; flattened side facilitated direct used of mallet in pointed ends of canoe. Now rare, if not unique tool. |
| Length | 32.4 cm |
| Width | 11 cm |
| Thickness | 8 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Samuel W. Fernberger, 1937 |
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