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 about 1890-1900 John and Sam Bluestone, makers MHS Museum Collections/ Sibley House Historic Site SH144, 145a-b |
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This is a rare surviving example of a Dakota-made birch bark canoe. Its hand-sewn panels and cedar ribs were constructed by John Bluestone (Tukantoiciya), a Mdewakanton Dakota born in 1835, whose descendants are members of the Lower Sioux Indian Community at Morton, Minnesota. His son, Sam Bluestone (Herakamani), carved the cedar paddles. The canoe is distinct from better-known Ojibwe canoe styles of the period in that the bow and stern are narrow and pointed rather than full and rounded. The donor, C. J. Clarkson, operated a ferry on the Minnesota River and was a neighbor of the Bluestone family when they lived in Mendota around 1895.
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