WORLDS LARGEST CANOE
WORLDS LARGEST BIRCH BARK CANOE
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Following my passion to keep alive and create a variety of traditional Native-style items including birch bark canoes, paddles, snowshoes and baskets.
Workshops
January 27, 2012
WORKSHOPS Over my past thirty-plus years of “Singing the Song,” I have had the good fortune to share my song with many fine people who have taken an interest in my work that has been my life. It has been quite an honor and a rewarding experience to teach them the fine art of… [Read more…]
Posted in: WORKSHOPS
100 Year-Old Restoration
January 25, 2012
One Hundred Year-Old Ojibwe Canoe Restoration
Posted in: RESTORATIONS
Books
January 24, 2012
BEAVER BARK CANOES The Art and Works of Ferdy Goode Beaver Bark Canoes is a pictorial journal of the Art and Works of Ferdy Goode which includes birch bark canoes, birch bark baskets decorated using bark etchings and porcupine quill embroidery, and Native-style snowshoes. This revised edition published in 2012, 6″ x 9″, 160… [Read more…]
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Contacts & Links
January 23, 2012
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<><>COMMISSIONS & CUSTOM ORDERS ARE ACCEPTED FOR BIRCH-BARK CANOES, BIRCH-BARK BASKETS AND NATIVE-STYLE SNOWSHOES <><> Email Address> beaverbarkcanoes@mac.com or beaverferd@yahoo.com Phone@ 715 892 4740 Ferdy Goode 1583 Marsha Ln Arbor Vitae, Wi. 54568 <>WEBSITES<> http://web.mac.com/beaverbarkcanoes http://beaversss-beaverbarkcanoes.blogspot.com http://beaverbarkcanoes.wordpress.com/ <<>LINKS LIBRARY<>> Wooden Canoe Heritage Association> http://wcha.org Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum> Canoe Museum – Wisconsin Canoe Heritage… [Read more…]
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Snowshoes
January 23, 2012
SNOWSHOES AAGIM The best examples of the snowshoe makers art may well be seen among the Attikemek people and the Eastern Cree. The shoes are of such a stunning quality and artistry that nothing could be added or subtracted without jeopardizing perfection. The babiche (raw hide) is woven not merely neatly and precisely, but… [Read more…]
Posted in: SNOWSHOES
Model Canoes
January 22, 2012
SCALE MODEL BIRCH BARK CANOES THE ART AND OBSESSION OF TAPPAN ADNEY The canoe models of Edwin Tappan Adney, universally recognized as the foremost scholar on the North American bark canoe, represent the distillation of a lifetime of research into Native canoeing cultures of North America. He originally intended his collection of models to illustrate… [Read more…]
Posted in: BIRCH BARK CANOES, SCALE MODEL CANOES
Porcupine Quill Embroidery
January 22, 2012
PORCUPINE GAG One unusual forest dweller is a creature which waddles when it walks, runs from nothing and never starves. It has feet like a bear, claws like a badger, teeth like a beaver and inner fur like the wool of a sheep. Porcupines normally have between twenty to thirty thousand quills, constantly growing… [Read more…]
Posted in: BIRCH BARK BASKETS, PORCUPINE QUILL DESIGN
Birch Bark Baskets
January 22, 2012
BIRCH BARK BASKETS WIIGWAASI-MAKAK An ancient art form, born somewhere in the depths of the birch forest generations ago, continues to survive into the modern world. There is still great interest in the construction and decoration of birch bark baskets. Birch bark baskets are generally made from a single sheet… [Read more…]
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A Fleet of Canoes
January 21, 2012
My first canoe built at the Bear Pond Camp in Winchester, Wisconsin, 1979 <A BEAVER BARK CANOES PRODUCTION>….Copyright…..2012
Posted in: A FLEET OF CANOES
"PROFILE"
THE ART AND WORKS OF FERDY GOODE
January 29, 2012
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