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Nom de l'objet : wedge
cale
Artiste ou artisan : displayed as example of Naskapi domestic equipment
Numéro de catalogue : III-B-102
Province d'origine : unknown
Province d'utilisation : unknown
Culture : Barren Ground Innu
Contexte culturel : During the late summer and fall of 2002, Pien Penashue built a canoe at North West Point near Sheshatshiu. Melvin Penashue and Alistair Pone worked with him as apprentices. Having cut lengths of white spruce from which canoe planks and ribs would be fashioned, the spruce logs were split open and thin planking made using wooden wedges. These wedges were hammered into the logs using wooden mallets made from white or black spruce, or an axe. Pien's preference was to hammer the wedges using the mallets because axes broke up the ends of the wedges too quickly. Pien used the word utakan for wedge. It is hard to imagine that bone wedges were used for splitting open logs. More information is required on this point - Peter Armitage (diary notes re. canoe making 2002).In his chapter about building a birch bark canoe, Rick Nash includes a photo that shows clearly the use of a wedge to split wood for ribs and planking. The top end of the tree was opened up first with an axe, and then with wedges.
Date de fin de production : unknown
Publications ou références : Armitage, Peter. 2002. Diary notes, August to October 2002 re. canoe-making by Pien Penashue, Lizette Penashue, Melvin Penashue and Alistair Pone, Sheshatshiu, Labrador. Copy provided to the Provincial Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, Newfoundland. Rick Nash. 2002. Building Birchbark Canoes. In John Jennings (ed.). The Canoe: A Living Tradition. Toronto: Firefly Books Ltd. pp. 46-63. Edwin Tappan Adney and Howard I. Chapelle. 1964. The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. George S Fichter. 1977. How to Build an Indian Canoe. New York: David McKay Company, Inc.
Établissement : The Rooms, Provincial Museum  Facebook-The Rooms, Provincial Museum  Twitter-The Rooms, Provincial Museum 
Ville de l'établissement : St. John's
Province de l'établissement : Newfoundland and Labrador

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