To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
Subject: Re: Kutenai Canoe
From: marc_pettingill@juno.com (Marc F. Pettingill)
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 01:51:18 EST
On Mon, 02 Dec 1996 17:11, Bill Patterson wrote:
>I have had several questions about the conformation of the kutenai
>canoe.
>
>I have only rough drawings.
etc.
Bill,
Your ascii art was pretty good! Actually, the stems of the Kutenai
canoe are angled back far more sharply than could be achieved by
starting with a 90 deg. at the corner envelope shaped piece of bark.
(It is generally felt that this canoe form was built most often of
spruce,
fir, white pine, or even elm bark, with just a strip of Birch bark at the
rails.)
You can find good pictures and description of the Kutenai ("Kootenai")
or Flathead canoe, sometimes called a "Sturgeon Nosed Canoe," on
pages 168-173 of Adney and Chappelle's, "The Bark Canoes and Skin
Boats of North America" (Smithsonian Institute Press, 1983. Long out
of print but just reprinted in paperback, ~$25.)
There is also some very uncomplementary discussion, but not renderings,
on pages 91-93 of Quirkes, "Canoes the World Over (University of Illinois
Press, 1952)
~marc
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