Object Details
- Collector
- Meriwether Clark
- Ocean/Sea/Gulf
- North Pacific Ocean
- January 6th. The Indian woman was very im[patient] to be permited to go with me, and was therefore indulged. She observed that she had traveled a long way with us to see the great waters, and that now that [a] monstrous fish was also to be seen, she thought it very hard that she could not be permitted to see either. [WILLIAM CLARK] The two-day trip took Clarks party along the rocky coast to a spectacular site overlooking what is now Cannon Beach—“the grandest and most pleasing prospects which my eyes ever surveyed,” he said, “inoumerable rocks of emence Sise out at a great distance from the Shore and against which the Seas brak with great force gives this Coast a most romantic appearance.” But when they reached the whale, theTillamook Indians had already stripped the carcass of any meat or blubber. All that was left was a skeleton, which Clark dutifully measured out at 105 feet long. Using his supply of trade goods, he bought three hundred pounds of blubber and a few gallons of whale oil from the Tillamooks.Then they all headed back to Fort Clatsop and its dreary routine. [Duncan & Burns 1997:168-169] Tl 105' ;
- Redman, N. (2017). Whales' bones of the Americas, South Atlantic and Antarctica - Canada, United States of America (except Hawaii), Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, The Bahamas, Bequia, Bonaire, Cuba, Curayao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Martinique, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, British Antarctic Territory, Falkland Islands, South Georgia. Teddington, England, Redman Publishing. page 33.
- Duncan, D., K. Burns (pref), et al. (1997). Lewis & Clark : an illustrated history / / by Dayton Duncan, based on a documentary film by Ken Burns ... ; preface by Ken Burns and contributions by Stephen E. Ambrose, Erica Funkhouser, William Least Heat-Moon. New York, Knopf.
- Record Last Modified
- 28 Aug 2019
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Collection Date
- 6 Jan 1806
- Other Numbers
- Whale Field Number 1 : No Number
- USNM Number
- STR12435
- Length - Total
- 3200 cm
- Sex
- Unknown
- Place
- Cannon Beach, Clatsop, Oregon, United States, North America, North Pacific Ocean
- Published Name
- Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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- Vertebrate Zoology
- Mammals
- Taxonomy
- Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Eutheria, Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae
- NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals Division
- Record ID
- nmnhvz_7578983
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/305e2d3dd-da3c-4430-b1d6-080f0b1f8ae0
