Model of a Boat
Artist
Unknown
Datecirca 2181–1880 BCE
MediumWood with gesso, paint, and twine
Dimensions30 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 41 in. (77.5 x 52.1x 104.1 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes
Object number82.12
On View
On viewRobert R. Steiglitz, "Long-distance Seafaring in the Ancient Near East," Biblical Archaeologist 47 (September 1984), 137, illus.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (color) 4.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 6.
Living in Our World: Africa, Asia, and Pacific Realm (textbook) (Raleigh: North Carolina State University, 1998), illus. (color) 36.
Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Model of a Boat, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 15, illus. (color).
M. Therese Southgate, M.D., "The Cover," JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 288, no. 16 (October 22/30, 2002), discussed 1947, illus. (color) 1947, and cover.
Caroline M. Rocheleau, entry for Model of a Boat, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 30, illus. (color) 31.
Caroline M. Rocheleau, Ancient Egyptian Art [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2012), cat. no. 9, illus. (color) 23; detail (color) 22.
Mildred Kiconco Bayra, "A Life in Fragments (of a Boat)" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 80, 83 (detail).
Peter McCracken, "Guide to Tall Ships," (Digital: ShipIndex.Org, 2016), illus.Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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