BUILT BY WILLIAM TENNISCO OF THE GOLDEN LAKE BAND OF ALGONQUIN INDIANS, CALABOGIE, ONTARIO, CANADA IN 1940. THIS CANOE IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, USED BY OWNER ON ADIRONDACK LAKE PISECO, NEW YORK, IN 1984. CEDAR PLANKS COVERED WITH BIRCH BARK, SEALED WITH SOME TYPE OF PITCH, 3 1/4" RIB ON 4" CENTER. THREE CROSS BRACES WITH LEATHER LACES COVERED WITH PITCH. ALL SEAMS OVERLAPPED ABOUT 2" ALSO SEALED WITH PITCH.

From card: "Not fur line[d], collar, designs painted in red, blue and yellow on the outside."Illus. p. 86 in Turner, Lucien M., Scott A. Heyes, and K. M. Helgen. 2014. Mammals of Ungava & Labrador: the 1882-1884 fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu knowledge. Identified there as an Innu child's Caribou skin coat.

Flesher used to scrape the inside of hides as they were being processed.

From card: "Skin with hair from beneath the lower jaw of a "fox", folded over with string of blue and white beads on the edges."