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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:19:39 -0800
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
From: Ben Collman <collmanb@mail.jsd.k12.ak.us>
Subject: Re: Sewing vs tacking
Howard,
> What is the purpose of the elaborate bow design of the
>baidarka (Brinck's book, in particular) ? It has almost a
>polynesian war canoe feeling to it. What does it do, that a
>clean, Greenlandstyle bow does not do?
You might read Dyson's "Baidarka" or "Form and Function of the Baidarka" as
a reference to these questions, if either is available where you are. I
guess there's always interlibrary loans.
Ben