The journey of this bark sturgeon nose canoe began in 2016 when Shawn Brigman (Spokane, Sinixt, Shuswap, Kalispel) visited the Burke Collections to study a beautiful Shuswap model canoe covered in white spruce bark.
Shawn made this canoe as part of the inaugural artist-in-residence grant program through the Bill Holm Center and used the funding to collect the over a dozen different natural materials needed to complete the canoe. The inside frame is lashed together with bitter cherry bark in the Kalispel style which Shawn calls "nature's duct tape" because of its strength and ability to hold things together for long periods of time.
Read more about Shawn's work on this bark sturgeon-nose canoe here: https://www.burkemuseum.org/…/artist-shawn-brigman-sculpts-…
Original source can be found here.
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