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Canoe (nailed variety), The Rooms, Provincial Museum Division

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Pien Penashue (left) and Pien Toma (kneeling) working on a katshishtashkuatet canoe at Sheshatshiu, 1963 (photo José Mailhot)
Pien Penashue (left) and Pien Toma (kneeling) working on a katshishtashkuatet canoe at Sheshatshiu, 1963 (photo José Mailhot)

Pien Penashue bending canoe ribs, September 2002 (photo Peter Armitage)
Pien Penashue bending canoe ribs, September 2002 (photo Peter Armitage)

The late Meshkana "Sam Rich" and family near Davis Inlet, not dated. (photo The Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College)
The late Meshkana "Sam Rich" and family near Davis Inlet, not dated. (photo The Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College)

A birch bark canoe on the beach by an Innu camp near Sheshatshiu, Labrador,1891 (photo Rupert Baxter, Labrador Institute collection)
A birch bark canoe on the beach by an Innu camp near Sheshatshiu, Labrador,1891 (photo Rupert Baxter, Labrador Institute collection)

Two unidentified Innu women working on a canoe near Sheshatshiu, Labrador, 1891 (photo Rupert Baxter, Labrador Institute collection)
Two unidentified Innu women working on a canoe near Sheshatshiu, Labrador, 1891 (photo Rupert Baxter, Labrador Institute collection)

Canoe-making at Sheshatshiu, 1921 (photo E.M. Kindle)
Canoe-making at Sheshatshiu, 1921 (photo E.M. Kindle)

Diagram showing the Innu names for the parts of a canoe
Diagram showing the Innu names for the parts of a canoe

Alistair Pone, one of Pien Penashue's apprentices, stands proudly beside the prototype of his first canoe completed in the fall 2005. With the support of the Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation, Alistair hopes to make canoes commercially (photo Alexander Andrew, 2005).
Alistair Pone, one of Pien Penashue's apprentices, stands proudly beside the prototype of his first canoe completed in the fall 2005. With the support of the Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation, Alistair hopes to make canoes commercially (photo Alexander Andrew, 2005).