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Description: | Model birchbark canoe, part of a collection of ethnographical material made by Admiral Sir George Back (1796-1878). The canoe originally had six cross bars and is sewn with spruce root.The making of model canoes with figures was associated with Catholic convents in Quebec. The nuns made the figures and the canoes themselves were made by local Indian people.
Bequeathed to Greenwich Hospital in 1900 by Mrs Eliza Back, widow of Sir George Back's nephew, the Rev Henry Back. See PRO ADM169-267. Formerly mounted on a board with AAA2646-2662. Detached 2007.
caption: Model Canoe - Low Level Broadside
caption: Model Canoe - High Level 3/4 View
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Indian American (North) canoes models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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