canoe

canoe

canoe

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Introduction

A canoe made from birch bark and wood, stitched with spruce root and sealed with pitch; red-painted \"man-boards\" at either end; 2 wood paddles.

Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe
Place of Origin: Wisconsin, USA
Materials

birch bark, pitch, spruce root, wood, red paint

Dimensions: 0 × 0 × 0 mm
Current Location: National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: E160387
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1894-04-14
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: WJ Hoffman
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 1893
Collection Narratives and Histories

WJ Hoffman

Exhibition History

A Nation of Nations 12/75.

Publication History

Canoe is listed in U.S. National Museum Bulletin 127, p. 214 under old number 168192. From Collins, p. 843, under old # 168192: "Wisconsin Birch Bark Canoe. Used by Ojibwa Indians of Wisconsin. Full size. Wisconsin, 1893. Collected by W. J. Hoffman, U.S. Geological Survey. An open, sharp ended, round bottom, keeless canoe; ends turned up and curved inward; false gunwales nailed on. 2 single-bladed paddles with oar-shaped blades. Dimensions of canoe: - Length, 13 feet; beam, 3 feet; depth, 10 1/2 inches."

GKS Reference Number: 24430
Approximate Place of Origin

44.736, -88.788

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