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
131 Ojibway 3-fathom fur-trade canoe, a cargo-carrying type,
marked by cut-under end profiles, that was built as late as
1894. 139
132 Lines of a 5-fathom fur-trade canoe, Grand Lake Victoria
Post, Hudson's Bay Company. 140
133 "Hudson's Bay Canoe Running the Rapids." From an oil painting
by Hopkins (_Public Archives of Canada photo_). 141
134 "Repairing the Canoe." From an oil painting by Hopkins
(_Public Archives of Canada photo_). 142
135 Lines of a 4½-fathom Hudson's Bay Company "North Canoe,"
built by Crees near James Bay, mid-19th century. 143
136 Photo: 5-fathom fur-trade canoe from Brunswick House, a
Hudson's Bay Company post. 144
137 Fur-trade canoes on the Missinaibi River, 1901. (_Canadian
Geological Survey photo._) 145
138 Photo: Fur-trade canoe brigade from Christopherson's Hudson's
Bay Company post, about 1885. 146
139 Forest rangers, Lake Timagami, Ontario. (_Canadian Pacific
Railway Company photo._) 147
140 Photo: Models made by Adney of fur-trade canoe stem-pieces. 149
141 Photo: Models by Adney of fur-trade canoe stem-pieces. 151
142 Portaging a 4½-fathom fur-trade canoe, about 1902, near the
head of the Ottawa River. (_Canadian Pacific Railway Company
photo._) 152
143 Decorations, fur-trade canoes (_Watercolor sketch by Adney._) 153
144 Lines of 2-fathom Chipewyan hunter's canoe. 155
145 Lines of 2½-fathom Chipewyan and 3-fathom Dogrib cargo, or
family, canoes. 156
146 Lines of 3-fathom Slavey and 2½-fathom Algonkin-type
Athabascan plank-stem canoes. 157
147 Lines of Eskimo kayak-form birch-bark canoe from Alaskan
Coast. 159
148 Lines of Athabascan hunting canoes of the kayak form. 160
149 Lines of extinct forms of Loucheux and bateau-form canoes,
reconstructed from old models. 161
150 Lines of kayak-form canoes of the Alaskan Eskimos and
Canadian Athabascan Indians. 163
151 Lines of kayak-form canoe of British Columbia and upper Yukon
valley. 164
152 Construction of kayak-form canoe of the lower Yukon, showing
rigid bottom frame. (_Smithsonian Institution photo._) 165
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