Help requested - dug out canoe research project

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JANET IRENE SEYMOUR (janet.seymour@wisconsinhistory.org)
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From: JANET IRENE SEYMOUR <janet.seymour@wisconsinhistory.org>
Subject: Help requested - dug out canoe research project
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 20:17:55 +0000
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Greetings,

We hope your preparations for the upcoming season have gone well, or are go ing well.

Mr. Ryan Smazal, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison majoring i n History and political science is partnering in a research project with th e Maritime Preservation and Archaeology Program at the Society.

Ryan received a WISCIENCE Entering Research Summer Program scholarship to b roaden his research experience in the STEM curriculum (Science, Technology,
 Engineering, Math). Ryan will be collecting information on and completing
 a comparative analysis of a sample of Wisconsin's dugout canoes. In addit ional to the documentation of each craft and the collection of archival inf ormation on the dugouts, he will create 3D photogrammatic and estimate diff erences in buoyancy characteristics and cargo capacity. Dugouts were one o f the first watercraft to be guided across Wisconsin’s waterway and were still being made in the early twentieth century.

We are requesting your help.

Do you have:

-a dugout canoe in your collection?

-a partial dugout canoe in your collection?

-or information on a dugout canoe, or dugout canoes in the form of a newspa per articles, photographs, books, or models?

If you have any information that you think would be helpful, please contact
 me at me at john.broihahn@wisconsinhistory.org.

Your help is much appreciated.

John H. Broihahn

State Archaeologist

State Historic Preservation Office

Wisconsin Historical Society

816 State Street, Madison, WI 53706

608-264-6496(O), 608-219-6240 (M) john.broihahn@wisconsinhistory.org

Janet Seymour, Northern Region

Local History-Field Services

Office of Programs and Outreach

Wisconsin Historical Society

c/o Department of History, UW-Eau Claire

105 Garfield Avenue Eau Claire WI 54701

715-836-2250

janet.seymour@wisconsinhistory.org

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