The Whetung Art and Craft Centre is located on the Curve Lake Indian Reserve 160 kilometres northeast of Toronto, in the popular tourist area known as the Kawartha Lake district. Authenticity at the Centre can be seen in the work of Indian artists from across Canada.
Practicality is evident in the use of local timber and stones for the main building's construction.
The main building houses a gift shop and art gallery where visitors find a display of authentic arts and crafts from across Canada, acknowledged as some of the finest in North America. Upon entering you find yourself in the main room of the wooden lodge, literally stocked floor to ceiling with the finest of Indian crafts - from the canoe slung below the rafters to a large selection of jewelry of silver, bone and precious stone. Browse among quill work, dolls, pottery, ceremonial regalia, drums and carvings. Downstairs, below this room, is a wonderful boutique filled with traditional and contemporary blankets and scarves, arctic parkas, Cowichan sweaters, leather accessories, beadwork, souvenir apparel. The ceiling here is festooned with hundreds of dreamcatchers and masks of all descriptions.