This birch-bark canoe was built to a traditional Ojibwa form and is similar in design and construction to bark canoes since before European contact. Muskeego was used for wilderness canoeing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, harvesting wild rice, netting whitefish, and public interpretive programs at Ely Folk School in Ely, Minnesota, and at North House Folk School in Grand Marais, Minnesota. In 2010 Muskeego appeared in the film “Rendezvous with History: A Grand Portage Story.” It also appeared in photoshoots for advertisements and a Discovery Channel “How It’s Made” segment in 2017. Muskeego was acquired by the Museum of Underwater Archaeology in 2019 and is currently on display in the History Department at Georgia Southern University in Savannah, Georgia.
