The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North AmericaChapelle, Howard Irving
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The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America
Chapelle, Howard Irving
Canoes and canoeing -- North America; Indians of North America -- Boats; Skin boats -- North America
49 Lines of 2-fathom Micmac pack, or woods, canoe. 59
50 Lines of 2-fathom Micmac pack, or woods, canoe. 60
51 Lines of 2-fathom Micmac pack, or woods, canoe. 61
52 Lines of 2½-fathom Micmac big-river canoe. 62
53 Lines of 3-fathom Micmac ocean canoe fitted for sailing. 63
54 Micmac rough-water canoe, Bathurst, N.B. (_Canadian
Geological Survey photo._) 64
55 Micmac Woods canoe, built by Malecite Jim Paul at St. Mary's
Reserve in 1911. (_Canadian Geological Survey photo._) 64
56 Micmac rough-water canoe fitted for sailing. (_Photo W. H.
Mechling, 1913._) 65
57 Micmac rough-water canoe, Bay Chaleur. (_Photo H. V.
Henderson, West Bathurst, N.B._) 66
58 Micmac rough-water sailing canoe, Bay Chaleur. (_Canadian
Geological Survey photo._) 66
59 Drawing: Details of Micmac canoes, including mast and sail. 67
60 Micmac canoe, Bathurst, N.B. (_Canadian Geological Survey
photo._) 68
61 Micmac woman gumming seams of canoe, Bathurst, N.B., 1913.
(_Canadian Geological Survey photo._) 69
62 Lines of 2½-fathom Malecite river canoe, 19th century. Old
form with raking ends and much sheer. 71
63 Lines of old form of Malecite-Abnaki 2½-fathom ocean canoe of
the Penobscots in the Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass. 72
64 Lines of large 3-fathom ocean canoe of the Passamaquoddy
porpoise hunters. 73
65 Lines of old form of Passamaquoddy 2½-fathom ocean canoe. 74
66 Lines of Malecite racing canoe of 1888, showing ~V~-shaped keel
piece between sheathing and bark to form deadrise. 75
67 Lines of sharp-ended 2½-fathom Passamaquoddy hunting canoe,
for use on tidal river. 76
68 Lines of Malecite 2½-fathom St. Lawrence River canoe,
probably a hybrid model. 77
69 Lines of Malecite 2½-fathom river canoe of 1890 from the
Rivière du Loup region. 78
70 Lines of Modern (1895) 2½-fathom Malecite St. John River
canoe. 79
71 Drawing: Malecite canoe details, gear, and gunwale
decorations. 80
72 Drawing: Malecite canoe details, stem profiles, paddles, sail
rig, and salmon spear. 81
73 Lines and decoration reconstructed from a very old model of a
St. John River ancient woods, or pack, canoe. 81
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