Description:
Missionary Cabinet. Birch bark miniature canoe model. Two similar floral curvilinear patterns on both sides in white, orange, red, and green dyed porcupine quills. Parts of the pattern are missing. The canoe is stitched together using twine with dyed quills woven on top. Three pieces of wood are attached as seats or thwarts (there may have also been a fourth that has been lost.) Traces of a black substance, possibly pine sap, on the interior. Listed as #6, "Model Canoe," in the “Catalogue of Cabinet of Articles sent by Missionaries to Mt. Hol. Fem. Sem. all before 1892” under American Indians. The number 6 is written in black ink on the bottom of the canoe.

Tags:
Native American; indigenous people; boats

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