ANTIQUE 1890'S PORCUPINE QUILL BIRCHBARK CANOE, MICMAC TRIBE, eastern Canada. 18 inches long, and 4 inches high. I have been told that sometimes different colored porcupine quills were used. There is a slight variation in color in each half of the designs, so I'm guessing some fading of quills has happened. But, still a very nice looking collectors display piece. Made of birch bark, red willow strands, porcupine quills, and sinew, (animal tendon), to hold it together. Few small areas of birch bark is peeling, canoe has 1 inch crack in front. One sinew strand is a little loose. It does have built in strings to hang and display the canoe. This canoe was looked at by an expert in Native American artifacts and crafts, and a curator of collections and both were similar in opinions. "Your canoe has porcupine quillwork on it and was made and sold for the tourist trade, probably about 1890. Note the greeting on the prow of the canoe, which end up reading Canada. The Micmacs were doing a lot of porcupine quillwork on birch bark, your canoe may have been made in eastern Canada." The prow of the canoe reads "Lake of the Woods, Sioux Narrows, Canada". My dad bought this many, many years ago, from a guy that needed money very badly. He said it was in his family for a long time.