Canoe Model with painted designs
ca. 1900
Hewn from a single cedar log, canoes were the primary mode of transportation across the waters of the Puget Sound for centuries-and in the words of a contemporary Native elder, "the Cadillacs of our ancestors"-conveying families to summer food harvesting camps and to clan gatherings, crews on whale hunts and warriors to battle. The earliest current evidence of model canoes on the Northwest Coast comes from the Ozette archaeological site on the Washington coast south of Cape Flattery.
Alder wood and paint
4 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (11.43 x 12.07 cm)
L.: 16 in.
Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund
91.24
