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Sea-going canoe--20 ft. long and of birch bark
Image Not Available for Sea-going canoe--20 ft. long and of birch bark
Object Number 35-123-10/5207
Display Title Sea-going canoe--20 ft. long and of birch bark
Descriptions
Object Description Canoe, 20 ft. long, painted red inside and rails, blue to water line, white beneath. Made about 1865
Department Ethnographic
Date ca. 1865
Artist Pete Atwin
Culture
  • Passamaquoddy
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Maine
Additional Geographic Terms Passamaquoddy Reservation; Point Pleasant
Materials Cedar Ash Birchbark Iron alloy Pine pitch Spruce root? Pine root
Dimensions Overall: 690 × 91.44 × 81.2802 cm (271 5/8 × 36 × 32 in.)
Provenance
Collector Manly Hardy (1874)
Owner Alonzo Rolf
Intermediary Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
Donor Paul F. Eckstorm (December 12, 1935)

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