kayak, 174, 176, 190-211; multi-chine hull, 175, 191, 199; cockpit, 175, 176, 192, 195 ff., 199, 200, 205, 208, 211; deck, 176, 192, 195 ff., 199, 204, 211; structure, 178, 180; keelson, 178, 192, 195, 200, 204, 206, 211; gunwales, 178, 192 ff., 202, 204, 205, 206, 208, 211; geographic distribution, 190, 191; v-bottom, 190 ff., 195, 202, 206, 208, 211; risers, 190; flat bottom, 190 ff., 204 ff.; Alaskan, 190 ff., 195, 196; distribution, 190, 191; design, 191, 192; handling and use, 191, 194, 195, 199; portaging, 191, 199; construction, 192-194; keel, 192; frames, 192, 194 ff., 202, 204 ff., 211; bone fittings, 193, 204, 208, 211; seat, 194; skin cover, 194; paddle, 194, 195, 197, 202, 204, 205; as catamaran, 194; righting, 194, 223-227; hunting screen, 195; thwarts, 195 ff., 199, 208; Koryak, 195; Kodiak Island, 195, 196; breakwater, 196; decorations, 197, 199; Aleutian, 196, 197; Unalaska, 196, 197; two-passenger, 197; three-passenger, 197; Nunivak Island, 197, 199; King Island, 199, 200; Cape Krusenstern, 200; Cape Espenberg, 200; Point Barrow, 200; Norton Sound, 200; Mackenzie Delta, 200, 202; Kotzebue Sound, 200; sheer, 200, 204 ff., 208, 211; Copper Eskimo, 204; Coronation Gulf, 204; Caribou, 204; Netsilik, 204; Baffin Island, 204, 205; Labrador, 205, 206; rocker (camber) of bottom, 205, 206, 211; Greenland, 206, 208, 211; flare, 206; rake of ends, 208 kayak-form canoe, 154, 158-168; Sekani, 159; Nahane, 159; bateau-shaped, 159; rake of ends, 159, 164; Loucheux, 161, 166; bottom frame of, 160 ff.; paddler's seat, 163; hunting, 165; British Columbia, 165; family, 165, 166; keel, 166; Chipewyan, 166, 167 keel, Beothuk canoe, 96, 97, 98; kayak-form canoe, 166; kayak, 192 keelson, umiak, 184, 186, 188; kayak, 192, 195, 200, 202, 204, 206, 211 keg (in fur trade), 142 Kennebec Indians, 70 King Island kayak, 194, 199, 200 King Island umiak, 187 Kipewa Post (Hudson's Bay Company), 151 knife, stone, 19; crooked, 21, 23 Kodiak Island, 181, 192 Kodiak Island kayak, 195, 196, 197, 199 Koryak umiak, 182, 189 Koryak kayak, 192, 195 Kotzebue Sound, 188, 200; kayak, 200 Krusenstern, Cape, 200, 204 Krusenstern kayak, 200, 204 Kutenai (Kootenay) Indians, 168, 172 Labrador, 99, 191, 192, 205, 206 Labrador kayak, 205, 206 Laet, Joann de, 94 LaFiteau, 12, 215 LaHontan, Baron de, 8, 10, 215 larch, splitting qualities, 17 La Salle, Robert Cavalier de, 8 lashing, canoe gunwale, 31 ff., 44, 45, 48; Micmac, 60; Têtes de Boule, 108, 109; Algonkin, 120; fur-trade, 149; narrow-bottom, 155, 156; kayak-form, 159, 160-166; sturgeon-nose, 169