Toboggan

Description

Model passenger toboggan, of birchwood with upturned front and upright back rest, the sides and part of the top filled in with caribou skin parchment: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Denesuline, c. 1861

Museum reference

A.686.1

Collection

Americas

Object name

Toboggan, Model

Production information

Unknown
Northwest Territories, Canada, North America

Date

c. 1861

Style / Culture

Denesuline
Athapaskan

Materials

Birch, Caribou skin, Sinew

Physical description

Model passenger toboggan, or "cariole," made of birchwood with upturned front and upright back rest, sides and part of the top filled in with caribou skin parchment, sewn with sinew thread.

Collection place(s)

Northwest Territories, Canada, North America

Exhibitions

• Living Lands (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Dogrib: We live securely by the land (01 Oct 2006 - 14 Dec 2007)
  Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
  Carleton University Art Gallery

References

The Athabaskans: Strangers of the North. Ottawa: National Museum of Man, 1974. Exhibition catalogue from 'An international travelling exhibition from the collection of the National Museum of Man, Canada, and the Royal Scottish Museum'. cat no. 110

Idiens, Dale, A catalogue of Northern Athapaskan Indian artefacts in the collection of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum Information Series, Art and Archaeology 3, March 1979

Dè T’a Hoti Ts’eeda: ‘We Live Securely by the Land’; An Exhibition of Dene material selected from the collections from National Museums Scotland. Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada 2006

On display

national museum of scotland »
level 1 »
world cultures, living lands