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Model Birchbark Canoes,

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:300.00 - 500.00 USD
Model Birchbark Canoes,
lot of 4. Includes one with painted geometric designs of four pointed stars, stepped triangles, design resembling blade of club, circles, and moons on the exterior, and with three struts, with plant fiber wrapping on top edges; 26" long; PLUS a canoe with remnants of wrapping and no struts; 16" long; PLUS a smaller canoe of same description; 12" long; AND another with thread wrapped sweet grass along top edge, with dyed porcupine quills in simple stitches on both sides; 11" long. Deaccessioned from the Western Reserve Historical Society of Cleveland, Ohio. First, good to very good, with split brace on one upper side and missing some pitch, and with old number "49.1140" in red and black ink; second, fair, remnants of wrapping, and missing pitch; third, in similar condition and with masking tape on one end; fourth, very good, missing a few porcupine quills and some sweet grass.