Building the three "cataract" boats for the 1938 Green and Colorado River expeditions, one of three photographs from scrapbook page 4. Partial boat frame, side panels attached to transom, Don Harris and Norm Nevills in background.

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Title Building the three "cataract" boats for the 1938 Green and Colorado River expeditions, one of three photographs from scrapbook page 4. Partial boat frame, side panels attached to transom, Don Harris and Norm Nevills in background.
Photo Number P0341n02_04_10
Description Photo is one of a series showing the construction of Norman Nevill's boats used in his 1938 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers
Date 1938-05; 1938-06
Textual Date May-June 1938
Keywords Albums; Photograph albums; Scrapbooks; Boat building; Watercraft; Boats; Rowboats; Cataract boats; Mexican Hat Lodge (Utah); Lodges (public accommodations); Mexican Hat (Utah); Deserts
Subject Wooden boats--Utah--Photographs; Boatbuilding--Utah--Mexican Hat--Photographs; Boats and boating--Photographs
Spatial Coverage Mexican Hat (Utah); San Juan County (Utah)
Latitude 37.15
Longitude -109.85
Additional Information Norman D. Nevills and Don Harris, a USGS engineer based at Mexican Hat, built three strong boats using marine plywood. Norm called their wide, flat-bottomed craft with upturned bows and square sterns, "cataract" boats. The Boats were named "WEN" (William E. Nevills initials), "Botany" (the theme of the expedition), and "Mexican Hat" (Nevills and Harris home town).
Collection Number and Name P0341 Norman D. and Doris Nevills Photograph Collection
Collection Name Norman D. and Doris Nevills
Finding Aid http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv17126/
Relation is Part of Utah River Running Archives
Donated By/Purchased From Gift of daughters Joan Nevills-Staveley and Sandra Nevills Reiff in 1988.
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Type Image
ARK ark:/87278/s61z4vzw
Setname uum_map_rr
ID 1343189
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s61z4vzw
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