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Close observation reveals the bow and stern silhouettes, in the lower field, riding on the blue ocean. The tree from which the canoe was made and several plain and oblique views of the canoe can be seen in the upper field. When the image is turned clockwise so that the blue band on the right-hand side is horizontal, the major black form on the left, excluding the border, becomes a silhouette of the bow section of the canoe floating on a blue sea. When turned one hundred and eighty degrees, the canoe's stern section is revealed in profile. When the painting is returned to the first position, the central black and roughly triangular area on the right hand side becomes one vertical half of the canoe as seen directly from a frontal elevation. The negative unpainted triangular space in the exact centre, represents a frontal elevation of the projecting bow piece. And the roughly similar design, directly opposite, represents the same view, only as seen from the stern. Brown, red, black.
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Facebook-U'mista Cultural Centre
/ Government of Canada