Scale: about 1:5. A model of a birch bark crooked canoe of the Eastern Cree and neighbouring peoples on the Ungava Peninsula made in wood and animal skin. The hull is double-ended, being very high at the bow and stern. Framing and planking painted black throughout. The hull has been covered with a number of stained dark brown animal hides stitched together and sewn to the bulwarks. The model is completely open and has three thwarts.

These type of vessels were used for portage rather than hunting. Varying in lengths of between 5 and 6 metres, these types of boats were used particularly on rough waters. These canoes were built in a shell first tradition, whereby spruce or larch lathes were inserted to make a framework within an already stitched birch bark hull.