Creation Date

1931 – 1955

Description

"Wooden canoe. A 20 inch Chinook canoe from the Northwestern coast of the United States. The canoe is painted black on the outside; red inside; with white and blue edging. The two blue and red paddles are made of yew wood. The long pointed one is a man's paddle, while the shorter one with a rounder point is a woman's paddle. The sail, light tan, is a wood reproduction of the rush-mat sails used on the real canoes after which this one is modeled at a scale of 3/4 inch = 1 foot. On either side of the bow figurehead is a dot representing a bird's head. On the stern there are two dots on either side, representing the eyes. They are double so that the canoe can doubly see hidden danger lurking ahead or behind -- or so the Indians believe."

This type of canoe was first made by the Shaddock Indians.