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A comprehensive technical and ethnographic survey of the continent's bark canoes and skin boats that documents their early history, raw materials, and traditional tools, then explains hull forms and step-by-step construction techniques. Regional chapters present variations in design and use across maritime, inland, and northwestern traditions, followed by a specialist account of Arctic skin boats including umiak and kayak. Richly illustrated with measured plans, photographs, sketches, and a practical appendix on rolling techniques, the work combines field observations, construction diagrams, and a bibliography to guide understanding and reproduction of these craft.

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Title: The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America

Author: Tappan Adney

Howard Irving Chapelle

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM

BULLETIN 230

WASHINGTON, D. C.

1964

MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY

The
Bark Canoes and Skin Boats
of
North America

Edwin Tappan Adney
and
Howard I. Chapelle

Curator of Transportation

B031222CA

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, WASHINGTON, D. C.
1964

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This work, the result of cooperation with the Mariners' Museum, the Stefansson Library, the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, and the American Museum of Natural History, forms number 230 of the Bulletin series.

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Director, United States National Museum

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