Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 09:44:55 -0800
Message-Id: <199612071744.JAA22864@InterGate.coleman.edu>
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
From: Valerie Drake <scott@excelsoft.com>
Subject: Re: Oneida boats?
At 09:50 AM 12/7/96 -0600, you wrote:
>At 02:09 PM 12/6/96 CST, you wrote:
>>
>>I believe that in spite of all the press that bark boats have gotten,
>>the most common type of work boat in use before the arrival
>>of Columbus was the dugout. I did not become aware of this fact until
>>quite recently. A few years back I hit a bunch of museums in small
>>towns in northern Wisconsin and to my surprise, every one had two or
>>three dugouts in it that someone had pulled off the bottom of some lake.
>
>
>Soooo, whereabouts are these little museums of which you spake?
>
>Wayne (in a little town in northern Wisconsin)
>
>
Re:dougouts in museums.
I have seen a few museums with dougouts, and a few were very fine craft.
In Victoria, B.C. there is a dougout that has very fine lines and I am sure
would paddle very well. It must of had a high freeboard too. You could see
where they had stitched planks to the gunwales. I think it was a Haida
boat(You Know...The Tlingets are coming, Haidus haidas!!!).
I also saw a dougout made of Sitka Spruce, in Sitka Alaska at the Sheldon
Jackson museum That was definatly a Tlinget boat and you could still see
some of the paint. If given the chance, I would not have hesitated to take
this boat out in the waves right then becaus it was so well founded.
Of course both of these boats were salt water preserved in very cold water.
Scott Calman
San Diego, CA
scott@excelsoft.com