This tall wooden water-skiing board is a piece of aquatic sports history. But it is its graphic red, white and blue paint decoration that puts it over the top as stunning decor for a lakeside home.
Read MoreEtching designs and pictorial stories onto birch bark is a traditional technique that Native American woodlands tribes used to decorate objects they made to sell to white settlers and tourists.
Read MoreAlthough this circa 1880s Woodlands crooked knife was made to be used as a woodworking tool, its human hand shape transcends its utilitarian purpose, making it an exquisite example of Native American art.
Read MoreThis framed early 20th century photo captures a classic scene of a solo paddler in a wood-and-canvas canoe on a serene northern lake.
Read MoreCanoe cups are a popular rustic collectible, especially those with carved or painted decoration of scenes and animals encountered in northern woods and waterways.
Read MoreAlpheus E. Keech (1855-1926) was a skilled artist who preserved idyllic images of the 1000 Islands region of northern New York on hundreds of souvenir canoe paddles that he sold for a living.
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