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 Message-id: <DM2PR0601MB730251BB61795170DF763B4876C0@DM2PR0601MB730.namprd06.prod.outlook.com>
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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