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Object Number 27-14-10/98236
Display Title Model of malecite spruce canoe
Descriptions
Inventory Description Carving, canoe model, bark covering, wood frame, bark strip lashing
Classification
  • Carving
Department Ethnographic
Artist Edwin Tappan Adney (1927)
Culture
  • Northeast
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / New Brunswick
Materials Wood, Bark
Dimensions Overall: 64.7 x 18 x 11.2 cm (25 1/2 x 7 1/16 x 4 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 98236 & MALECIT SPRUCE BARK CANOE / End closure [stuffed with pounded fir-buds-or Moose tallow] / as descrd. by Old [underlined] Solomon Park (?), Oromacto, NB age (reputed) / 90 years in Sept. 1925. / Made by E.T. Adney, scale c. 1/5, checked by 2 models built / by Peter Bear, Tobique Reserve, N.B. (age 76) Sept. 1926
Credit Line Gift of E. T. Adney, 1927
Provenance
Donor Donated by Edwin Tappan Adney (1927)

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