Major Edwin Tappan Adney (Canadian, born in USA, 1868 – 1950)
after Peter Bear (Wolastoqiyik, 1849 – 1931)
canoe model: Wolastoqey Canvas Canoe Model, 1930
painted canvas, cedar and spruce
overall: 10 x 16 x 100 cm
Gift of Major Edwin Tappan Adney, 1947 (1947.56A)
New Brunswick Museum Collection

Model of a canvas canoe built birchbark fashion and of the period 1890-1900.

Major Edwin Tappan Adney (Canadian, born in USA, 1868 – 1950)
canoe model: Mi'kmaw Rough Water Canoe Model, c. 1930
birchbark with cedar, spruce root and spruce gum
overall: 12 × 121 × 18 cm
Gift of Major Edwin Tappan Adney, 1947 (1947.57A)
New Brunswick Museum Collection                     

Based on canoes used on the Restigouche River, New Brunswick, prior to 1890.

Major Edwin Tappan Adney (Canadian, born in USA, 1868 – 1950)
after Peter Bear (Wolastoqiyik, 1849 – 1931)
canoe model: Wolastoqey Moosehide Canoe Model, 1935-1938
moosehide, spruce and cedar
overall: 14 × 92 × 26 cm                                                                                                                                                                                              

Gift of Major Edwin Tappan Adney (X8181.1)
New Brunswick Museum Collection                                           

Used by hunters to bring their hide and furs and moosemeat out of the woods after the winter
hunt. The last known builder of this type of canoe was Peter Bear of Neqotkuk (Tobique)
Model, 1/5 scale by E.T. Adney after a model by Peter Bear.