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
153 Photo: Model of an extinct form of Athabascan type birch-bark
canoe, of British Columbia. In Peabody Museum, Harvard
University. 167
154 Lines of sturgeon-nose bark canoe of the Kutenai and Shuswap. 169
155 Ojibway canoe construction. (_Canadian Geological Survey
photos._) 170-171
156 Photo: Indians with canoe at Alert Bay, on Cormorant Island,
B. C. 173
157 Eighteenth-century lines drawing of a kayak, from Labrador or
southern Baffin Island. 175
158 Western Alaskan umiak with eight women paddling, Cape Prince
of Wales, Alaska, 1936. (_Photo by Henry B. Collins._) 177
159 Western Alaskan umiak being beached, Cape Prince of Wales,
Alaska, 1936. (_Photo by Henry B. Collins._) 177
160 Repairing umiak frame at St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, 1930.
(_Photo by Henry B. Collins._) 178
161 Eskimo woman splitting walrus hide to make umiak cover, St.
Lawrence Island, Alaska, 1930. (_Photo by Henry B. Collins._)
178
162 Fitting split walrus-hide cover to umiak at St. Lawrence
Island, Alaska, 1930. (_Photo by Henry B. Collins._) 179
163 Outboard motor installed on umiak, Cape Prince of Wales,
Alaska, 1936. (_Photo by Henry B. Collins._) 179
164 Launching umiak in light surf, Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska,
1936. (_Photo by Henry B. Collins._) 179
165 Umiaks on racks, in front of village on Little Diomede
Island, July 30, 1936. (_Photo by Henry B. Collins._) 181
166 Umiak covered with split walrus hide, Cape Prince of Wales,
Alaska. (_Photo by Henry B. Collins._) 183
167 Lines of small umiak for walrus hunting, west coast of
Alaska. 1888-89 184
168 Umiaks near Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, showing walrus hide
cover and lacing. (_Photo by Henry B. Collins._) 185
169 Lines of umiak, west coast of Alaska, King Island, 1886 186
170 Making the blind seam: two stages of method used by the
Eskimo to join skins together. 186
171 Lines of north Alaskan whaling umiak of about 1890 187
172 Lines of Baffin Island umiak, 1885. Drawn from model and
detailed measurements of a single boat. 188
173 Lines of east Greenland umiak, drawn from measurements taken
off by a U.S. Army officer in 1945. 189
174 Frame of kayak, Nunivak Island, Alaska. (_Photo by Henry B.
Collins._) 191
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