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canoe model
canoe model
canoe model
Model canoe made with birch bark, spruce edging, and lined with blue polished cotton. Adorned with porcupine quillwork that forms patterns of stripes and chained diamonds. Collected by Johann Georg Schwarz and currently housed at the Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria. Mi'kmaq.
Thought to be Mi'kmaq because of the shape of the canoe with rounded ends and style of quillwork (noted by Ruth Phillips).
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Birch bark, porcupine quills, thread, spruce edging; lined with blue polished cotton.
Made with a single piece of bark folded and sewn around edges; the shape of the canoe has rounded ends, which is the style of miqmaq; the folding creates a flat bottom.
Features black quill decoration on bottom; stripes and chained diamonds.
Johann Georg Schwarz collected this item, possibly when he traveled to Detroit and through Upper Canada in the winter of 1820-1821.
Provenance
Johann Georg Schwarz traveled to Detroit and through Upper Canada in the winter of 1820-1821.
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown Mi'kmaq artist, canoe model. Currently in the Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 12044. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip January 2016; GRASAC item id 59023.
In January of 2016, a small team of GRASAC researchers visited the collection to study and photograph it: Ruth Phillips, Lisa Truong, Naomi Recollet (Anishinaabe (Odawa/Ojibwe), Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory) and Wahsontiio Cross (Mohawk, Kahnawake). This GKS record was created in December 2021 by GRASAC RA Amelia Healey.
Created using a spreadsheet with information made by Ruth Phillips, Lisa Truong, Naomi Recollet (Anishinaabe (Odawa/Ojibwe), Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory) and Wahsontiio Cross (Mohawk, Kahnawake).