Canoe model

description:

Birch bark model canoe, incised with double curve motifs.

references:

Reproduced in article by Suzanne Flynt titled, "Early Native American Collections in Deerfield," American Indian Art Magazine, Vol. 30, No.1, Winter 2004, p.57. Reproduced in "Gathered and Preserved," 1991, p.17.

provenance:

Donated by James Sullivan, Esq. of Boston, Governor of Massachusetts, to the Deerfield Academy museum c. 1800.

keywords:

Commerce, Business, Trade, Exchange
Landscape
Native Americans