The fragmented canoe!✨🛶

The earrings in the display case were made by a member of the Ojibwe community. The Ojibwe people are one of the Indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States that belong to the Anishinaabe cultural and linguistic group, which also includes the Outaouais, the Algonquians and the Potawatomis (from the Upper Mississippi region). In the 17th century, the Ojibwe people left the Great Lakes region to settle in southern Ontario, following the dispersal of the Wendats to other territories such as Wisconsin and Minnesota, where they replaced the Dakotas. Later on, the Ojibwe people spread out north and west across North America in search of new hunting grounds to supply the fur trade. Like the Huron-Wendat, the Ojibwe were already involved in the fur trade when the Europeans arrived. These pretty earrings incorporate the motif of the bark canoe. Birch bark canoes were used by the Ojibwe and the Huron-Wendat to conduct their daily and economic activities throughout their territory.

Don't forget to visit our temporary exhibition "The Canoe, Bearer of Traditions". Several fascinating discoveries await you!