U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1964 * * * * * For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402--Price $6.75 _Special acknowledgment_ _Is here gratefully made to The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia, under whose auspices was prepared and with whose cooperation is here published the part of this work based on the Adney papers; also to the late Vilhjalmur Stefansson, for whose_ ENCYCLOPEDIA ARCTICA _was written the chapter on Arctic skin boats._ _Contents_ _Page_ Introduction 1 1. Early History 7 2. Materials and Tools 14 3. Form and Construction 27 Form 27 Construction 36 4. Eastern Maritime Region 58 Micmac 58 Malecite 70 St. Francis 88 Beothuk 94 5. Central Canada 99 Eastern Cree 101 Têtes de Boule 107 Algonkin 113 Ojibway 122 Western Cree 132 Fur-trade Canoes 135 6. Northwestern Canada 154 Narrow-Bottom Canoe 155 Kayak-Form Canoe 158 Sturgeon-Nose Canoe 168 7. Arctic Skin Boats: by _Howard I. Chapelle_ 174 The Umiak 181 The Kayak 190 8. Temporary Craft 212 Bark Canoes 212 Skin Boats 219 Retrospect 221 Appendix: The Kayak Roll, by _John D. Heath_ 223