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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.
Is here gratefully made to The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia, under whose auspices was prepared and with whose cooperation is here published the part of this work based on the Adney papers; also to the late Vilhjalmur Stefansson, for whose Encyclopedia Arctica was written the chapter on Arctic skin boats.