MICMAC canoe

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In 1990 St Pierre et Miquelon issued a stamp of 2F50 which depict a MICMAC canoe, what the Museum fur Völkrenkunde (Ethnology) inVienna, Austria has to do with this stamp, I am not sure, maybe the canoe is an exhibition piece in the museum.
The MICMAC canoe depict is a MU’SU U’LK or a Moose-hide canoe, used in the Canadian Eastern Maritime Provinces, and was most probably also used on St Pierre et Miquelon.

Hides of one-and-half or two moose were scrapped free of hair and formed into a canoe.
The dimensions were about 76 till 91cm wide and 25cm deep, not a length given.
Used mostly by winter hunters as a temporary craft to transport the game and there possessions from the woods to their camps.
The canoe is also known under the name Micmac moose-hide canoe.

St Pierre et Miquelon 1990 2f50 sg649, scott 550

Copied from Aak to Zumbra.

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The Micmacs, early inhabitants of the Maritimes, migrated from the woods to the seashore each spring. Their canoes were designed to be high amidships and curved-in at the gunwales. They confidently navigated rivers, lakes and the ocean, sometimes equipped with a sail derived from the Europeans.

Canada 1989 38c sg1318, scott1232

Source: Watercraft Philately, Canada Post Corp. Commemorative Stamp Bulletin.

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