C is for Canoes - 5 - St. Labre School

We have seen the sub-scale, semi-relief Tee-Pee/Tipi from St Labre, and the Totem Pole (way back at the beginning of the blog and incorrectly tagged Labere School, which I can't edit due to rule changes!), so it's nice to be revisiting them in the canoe 'season', where they go big . . . really big!

Approximately 5" figures with a boat to match, we have what are facially kids (with native features), but dressed as adults, with a full war bonnet on the boy, and the girl holding an Indian blanket. The boat may not belong with them, being from a set of action-figures, but they fit it, so it's here as we have St. Labre in the tag-list already!

 

I've mentioned before that I assume they were some kind of fundraising thing, but I used to think gift-shop or open day types, but you often see mailing boxes in their evilBay lots, so they must have been more of a fundraising catalogue thing?

 

I keep meaning to get the Indian tom-tom drum salt and pepper shakers, but haven't yet! However, I think this is mine (I vaguely recognise the background as a carpet tile I sometimes shoot on!), and she is the third figure of the set above, to which a baby in a stick-frame papoose is a forth human element.

 

Brian also sent a scaler, with a few other items on his desk-top, you can see it's a biggie! There's Timpo there, the Britains 'trapper' canoe copy and Tim Mee in the foreground. St. Labre did do a canoe, in birchbark with leather 'bootlace' stitching, but does anyone recognise this one?

 

And a big thanks to Brian for all the canoe stuff he sent to the Blog, we'll be posting it into June I think, and that's some St. Labre School stuff, box ticked!