Model Canoe | Figures Item Number: 4659 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Automatically Generated From Material
The paint is blue and red.
Exhibit Label
This canoe is a small model of the Westcoast seagoing type, in use from below the Dalles to the north end of Vancouver Island and in all the inland waters of Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia. The Makah and their Westcoast relatives across the Strait of Juan de Fuca were the master builders of this style of canoe. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)
Item History
- Received from Young Naturalists' Society
What
Who
- Culture
- Nuu-chah-nulth
- Received from
- Young Naturalists' Society
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Gift of Young Naturalists Society
- Motif
- Human
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection