Miniature kayak
Miniature kayak in wood and smooth white seal skin. It comes with a harpoon, a paddle with a walrus ivory tip and a wooden oar.
- Accession Number 2021.59.130.1-4
- Date 1950
- Materials bones, fiber, cotton, skin, seal, tendon, wood
- Measurements 6,5 x 62 cm
Historical context
The object represents a scale model of a qajaq (kayak) like those once made in Nunavik, fashioned from depilated sealskin. The skin covers a wooden structure. It is topped by a half-moon coaming (paa, in the Inuit language) made of wood sewn to the seal membrane. The boat is equipped with two straps on the foredeck and a paddle with the beautiful detail of a walrus ivory insert at one end, the other being missing. We also note a small, in...
- Accession Number 2021.59.130.1-4
- Date 1950
- Materials bones, fiber, cotton, skin, seal, tendon, wood
- Measurements 6,5 x 62 cm
© © Collection Pointe-à-Callière, don de Jacques Lacaille, 2021.059.130.1-4
Photo by Michel Pinault
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