Arctic Bay Kayaker

 At the heart of a section on life in the Eastern Woodlands is this birchbark canoe, built in 2015 by Mik'maw elder Todd Labrador, including stars, animals, and the influence of his people, and done in traditional ways.

Much of eastern Canada came under the Eastern Woodlands, and the larger cultural group of tribes known as the Algonquian. 

Some of their tools are found here.

Here we have the tools that Todd Labrador used in making his canoe.

In the far north, the Inuit moved into the Arctic some eight hundred years ago and began to thrive.

Inuit tools are seen here.

Another reproduction of a face from the past, this one done physically. The community of Arctic Bay and the Museum have collaborated in reproducing the appearance of a man who died eight hundred years ago. His remains were found with tools, which have been reproduced as well. His remains were scanned and this is the result. The remains and the originals have been repatriated to the community, a common practice in this day and age. He has been given the name Nuvumiutaq.