In the university’s anthropological collections is the country’s largest known Native American dugout canoe, which is 32½ feet from stem to stern, 2 feet wide, and 9 inches deep on the inside. The canoe was found floating on the Tennessee River in 1797. It was given to UT in 1950. The Smithsonian Institution indicated that no more than six dugout canoes had survived the decades, and all are significantly smaller than the one at UT.
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