Hello out there
I am a conservator, living and working in Germany. At the moment i am working with a colleague for a Museum in Brunswick. They have a big ethnography Collection. One object is a birchbark canoe from eather Labrador or Algonkin (st. Lorenz river). There are unfortunatly two information and we dont know which might be right.
I was reading already so much in your forum and i discovered so much knowledge, we dont have over here, because building canoes wasnt a topic in Germany ever. Maybe you can help us to know more about our canoe over here.
The inventory of the Museum says:
the canoe was bought from Indians at a big lake (no more Information) before 1875. It is 14-15 feet long and about 2-3 feet wide.
Thats it. I´ll try to post a picture for a better understanding.
Nowadays the canoe is in really bad condition, because the storage wasnt made for a canoe of that material.
Some details we didnt expect to find, were iron nails and textil. There are some nails, with which the upper wooden slat was fixed around the canoe. And we found a slim slice of textile at the nose and at the rear of the canoe, where both birchbark come together. of course it is layered.
Greetings, Maja
I am a conservator, living and working in Germany. At the moment i am working with a colleague for a Museum in Brunswick. They have a big ethnography Collection. One object is a birchbark canoe from eather Labrador or Algonkin (st. Lorenz river). There are unfortunatly two information and we dont know which might be right.
I was reading already so much in your forum and i discovered so much knowledge, we dont have over here, because building canoes wasnt a topic in Germany ever. Maybe you can help us to know more about our canoe over here.
The inventory of the Museum says:
the canoe was bought from Indians at a big lake (no more Information) before 1875. It is 14-15 feet long and about 2-3 feet wide.
Thats it. I´ll try to post a picture for a better understanding.
Nowadays the canoe is in really bad condition, because the storage wasnt made for a canoe of that material.
Some details we didnt expect to find, were iron nails and textil. There are some nails, with which the upper wooden slat was fixed around the canoe. And we found a slim slice of textile at the nose and at the rear of the canoe, where both birchbark come together. of course it is layered.
Greetings, Maja