Canoe
- Object Name:
- Canoe
- Object ID:
- 1996.017
- Creator:
- Vaillancourt, Henri
Woodworker - Place of Origin:
- Greenville, NH
- Date:
- 1996
- Description:
- Scale model birchbark canoe, Eastern Abenaki style (Malecite, Penobscot, or Passamaquoddy), made by Henri Vaillancourt, Greenville, NH, 1996. Canoe exterior made of paper birch, brown side out. Interior ribs and planking of white cedar. Five cross-pieces, made of local hardwood (birch or maple). Sewn with black spruce root. Exterior seams sealed with pine pitch. Decorated with red wave motif, done identically at both sides of both ends.
- Material:
- Wood
Birchbark
Cedar - Dimensions:
- H-7.25 W-9 L-46.5 inches
- Provenance:
- NHHS purchased model canoe with intent to exhibit in "New Hampshire Through Many Eyes" exhibition, 1995. Henri Vaillancourt loaned the museum a similar model until he could prepare one for NHHS. Loaned canoe was exchanged for purchased canoe on 07/10/1996.
Henri Vaillancourt (b.1950), Greenville, NH (born and raised); maker of birchbark canoes and snowshoes, based on specific Eastern Abenaki (Malecite, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy) traditions. - Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- Subjects:
- Canoes, Native Americans
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