The paint is red and black.

Note that canoe 1785 is mentioned as being used in an exhibit in Berlin in 1880 on p. 104 of USNM Bulletin No. 18. It is described there as a Northwest coast wooden sea canoe model of the type used by the Indians of northwest coast in hunting and fishing.

FROM CARD: "SCALE OF MODEL 1 INCH EQUALS 1 FOOT: SIZE OF ORIGINAL: 36' L.,25" D., PADDLES 8'9" TO 9'9" L. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL.7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 6, PG. 245. REFER: COLLIN'S MS. P. 918. USNM. BULL.127, P.221, FIG.67." Handbook of North American Indians photo caption identifies as a model of a Northern canoe. Model has a mast.It may be presumed that this object was probably collected by George Gibbs during his time on the Northwest Boundary Survey, 1857-1860?Canoe model appears in Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on artfact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=1 , retrieved 6-24-2012.

FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM ONE PIECE OF WOOD, A SEA OTTER HUNTING CANOE WITH THE FULLY CONCAVE LINE TO THE PROW. EXTERIOR PAINTED BLACK ON LOWER HAFT AND RED ABOVE, THREE RED LINES ACROSS THE INTERIOR. 11/1963 - DR. F. DE LAGUNA. 11/1963 A SECTION OF THE RIGHT SIDE AT THE PROW END HAS BEEN BROKEN OFF.*-R. ELDER."

FROM CARD: "FOR DEEP SEA AND WAR."Listed on page 44 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes".