From: Mike Michna <mich3349@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 15:24:05 -0500 Message-ID: <CAGxg7hC_zW_Vkj=8tXkNkFWL4sLZCu_J4CjKZBH1VGVgCV174Q@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Help requested - dug out canoe research project
Check with Douglas County HS in Superior.
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 3:17 PM, JANET IRENE SEYMOUR <
janet.seymour@wisconsinhistory.org> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>
> We hope your preparations for the upcoming season have gone well, or are
> going well.
>
>
> Mr. Ryan Smazal, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison majoring
> in History and political science is partnering in a research project with
> the Maritime Preservation and Archaeology Program at the Society.
>
>
> Ryan received a WISCIENCE Entering Research Summer Program scholarship to
> broaden his research experience in the STEM curriculum (Science,
> Technology, Engineering, Math). Ryan will be collecting information on a
nd
> completing a comparative analysis of a sample of Wisconsin's dugout
> canoes. In additional to the documentation of each craft and the
> collection of archival information on the dugouts, he will create 3D
> photogrammatic and estimate differences in buoyancy characteristics and
> cargo capacity. Dugouts were one of the first watercraft to be guided
> across Wisconsin’s waterway and were still being made in the earl
y
> 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
> newspaper articles, photographs, books, or models?
>
>
> If you have any information that you think would be helpful, please
> contact me at > contact me at john.broihahn@wisconsinhistory.org.
>
> Your help is much appreciated.
>
> John H. Broihahn
>
> State Archaeologist
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> State Historic Preservation Office
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> Wisconsin Historical Society
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> Janet Seymour, Northern Region
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> Office of Programs and Outreach
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