Model Canoe, two sections and multiple fragments

Model Canoe, two sections and multiple fragments, no date

  • unknown

Birch bark, porcupine quills, and dye

  • Framed: Overall (prow section): 9 3/8 × 6 1/2 × 2 3/8 inches (23.8 × 16.5 × 6 cm)

T2012.133

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

  • Broken
  • Dye
  • Animal material
  • Star
  • Model (representation)
  • Flag
  • Canoe
  • Birch
  • Fish

Details

Signed, Marks, Inscriptions

Inscribed, on canoe: THE NORTH STAR

Provenance

2012-present, found in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Rights Status

Learn More About Model Canoe, two sections and multiple fragments

  • Cloudy Mountains

    Cloudy Mountains, 17th - early 18th century

    Gao Ke-gong

  • Mrs. Eugene Beauharnais Gibbs (formerly Mary Elizabeth Hoyt)

    Mrs. Eugene Beauharnais Gibbs (formerly Mary Elizabeth Hoyt), between 1860 and 1870

    Unknown

  • Portrait of a Boy

    Portrait of a Boy, ca. 1856

    Unknown

  • Bar-Weight

    Bar-Weight, between 1000 BCE and 600 CE

    North American, Native American

  • Bar-Weight

    Bar-Weight, between 1000 BCE and 600 CE

    North American, Native American

  • Bar-Weight

    Bar-Weight, between 1000 BCE and 600 CE

    North American, Native American

  • Model, Canoe

    Model, Canoe, middle 19th Century

    North American, Native American

  • Model, Cannon

    Model, Cannon, between 1900 and 1950

    Javanese

  • Model of a Shaman's Guardian Figure

    Model of a Shaman's Guardian Figure, ca. 1890

    Tlingit, Native American

View All