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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.
Bark Canoe Models
These are the beautiful women that enhance the natural beauty of the birch bark canoes ~~
Posted in: Videos
I’m Going Fishing
April 4, 2014
My buddy and I strap on our snowshoes and stomp on out to a pristine north-woods lake in the pursuit of the “winter trout”.
Posted in: Videos
Snowshoe Weavers Blues
February 8, 2014
I recently restored an old pair of Montagnais swallow-tail snowshoes and finally re-launched them onto the snow-ladden lakes and rivers. Enjoy!
Posted in: Videos
WORLDS LARGEST CANOE
January 29, 2012
WORLDS LARGEST BIRCH BARK CANOE
Posted in: WORLD'S LARGEST CANOE
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 […]
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 […]
Posted in: BOOKS
Contacts & Links
January 23, 2012
<><>COMMISSIONS & CUSTOM ORDERS ARE ACCEPTED FOR BIRCH-BARK CANOES, BIRCH-BARK BASKETS AND NATIVE-STYLE SNOWSHOES <><> Email Address> beaverbarkcanoes@mac.com or beaverbarkcanoes49@gmail.com Phone@ 715 892 4740 Ferdy Goode 1583 Marsha Ln Arbor Vitae, Wi. 54568 <>WEBSITES<> https://beaverbarkcanoes.wordpress.com/ http://beaversss-beaverbarkcanoes.blogspot.com <<>LINKS LIBRARY<>> Wooden Canoe Heritage Association> http://wcha.org Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum> Canoe Museum – Wisconsin Canoe Heritage […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Posted in: BIRCH BARK CANOES, SCALE MODEL CANOES
"PROFILE"
THE ART AND WORKS OF FERDY GOODE
The Most Beautiful Canoe to Grace the Northern Waters
Ungava Cree-style Canoe, {Bittersweet Lake}
Wabanaki-style Canoe at Day Lake
Earl Otchingwanigan
Ojibwe Master Canoe-maker
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