Model birchbark canoe

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Model birchbark canoe, part of a collection of ethnographical material made by Admiral Sir George Back (1796-1878). The canoe originally had six cross bars and is sewn with spruce root.The making of model canoes with figures was associated with Catholic convents in Quebec. The nuns made the figures and the canoes themselves were made by local Indian people.

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Object Details

ID:	AAA2646
Collection:	World Cultures
Type:	Model canoe
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	1819-1834; 1819-34
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Greenwich Hospital Collection
Measurements:	Overall: 51 x 1206 x 203 mm