The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America. Howard Irving Chapelle
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Howard Irving Chapelle, Tappan Adney
The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664649225
Table of Contents
Chapter Two MATERIALS and TOOLS
Chapter Three FORM AND CONSTRUCTION
Chapter Four EASTERN MARITIME REGION
Chapter Six NORTHWESTERN CANADA
Chapter Seven ARCTIC SKIN BOATS Howard I. Chapelle
Appendix The Kayak Roll John D. Heath
Illustrations
| Figure | Page | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fur-trade canoe on the Missinaibi River, 1901. (Canadian Geological Survey photo.) | 2 |
| 2 | Page from a manuscript of 1771, "Observations on Hudsons Bay," by Alexander Graham, Factor. (In archives of Hudson's Bay Company.) | 9 |
| 3 | Canoes from LaHontan's Nouveaux Voyages … dans l'Amerique septentrionale, showing crude representations typical of early writers. | 11 |
| 4 | Lines of an old birch-bark canoe, probably Micmac, brought to England in 1749 from New England. (From Admiralty Collection of Draughts, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.) | 12 |
| 5 | Ojibway Indian carrying spruce roots, Lac Seul, Ont., 1919. (Canadian Geological Survey photo.) | 15 |
| 6 | Roll of bark for a hunting canoe. Algonkin Reserve, at Golden Lake, Ont., 1927. | 16 |
| 7 | Sketch: wood-splitting techniques, cedar and spruce. | 17 |
| 8–19 |
Sketches of tools: 8, stone axe; 9, stone hammer, wedge, and knife; 10, mauls and driving sticks; 11, stone scraper; 12, bow drill; 13, modern Hudson Bay axe; 14, steel fur-trade tomahawk; |