Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 07:34:51 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <199908231434.HAA08888@ns.intelenet.net>
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
From: redcanoe@pangea.ca (Douglas Ingram)
Subject: Re: baidarka traditional kayak replicas
Harvey,
Sounds like you've been busy! That is quite the impressive list indeed. I
have often entertained the desire to do exactly as you have done, although
my interests are not so narrowly focused as yours.
I am positive that your experiencees building and using these kayaks should
not go unreported. I encourage you to write of and to share your knowlede
with others. There are others on this list who share a similar passion as
you, (big surprise there!) A very nice book could result. I would buy one.
And welcome to the list!
>I am curious to find others who have built and used replicas of some of the
>more obscure kayak types from the Arctic tradition. (Greenlandic and Aleut
>kayaks certainly dominate current building trends, and for logical
>reasons.) Depending on whose "kayak typology" one looks at, there are
>roughly 18-to-25 other kayak types in the arctic—each with their own unique
>characteristics and qualities. I have dedicated myself to building and
>using replicas of many of the lesser-known types—kayaks that are often
>naively derided as primitive or simply 'bad.' I must honestly say, I have
>yet to paddle a 'bad' Inuit design. All the types I've used have been very
>fine craft to paddle, though each is quite different from the next.
>
>I've built a number of replica Aleut kayaks, but the more unusual kayak
>types I've built replicas of are:
>1820's North Baffin kayak (at the Albert Mem. Mus.) drawing by Brand/Arima.
>1821 Old Iglulik Kayak (British Museum) drawing by Mike Morgan of Wales
>1889 Norton Sound (USNM no.160175) Howard Chappelle
>1888 Point Barrow (USNM no.57773) Howard Chappelle
>1850's Kodiak (Danish Nat. Mus.) David Zimmerly
>1800's Disko Bay Greenland (British Museum) John Brand
>1890's Caribou Inuit kayak (AMNH 60/3547) Franz Boas/ Eugene Arima
>1933 East Greenland (Museon, the Hague, no. 48057) Golden
>1600's West Greenland (DHNS Hindeloopen) Nooter/Golden
>1600's West Greenland (Wrangell Arm. Sweden) Hugh Collings
>18th.C(?) "Straits of Saint David" . . . in Arima (1987) and in Chappelle
>(The following are all in the Canadian Museum of Civilization:)
>ca.1914 MacKenzie Delta kayak, John Heath
>ca.1913 Copper Inuit kayak, Eugene Arima, Heath (also D. Zimmerly)
>ca.1913 Natsilik kayak, Eugene Arima
>ca.1959 Labrador (Ivuyivik) kayak, Eugene Arima
>an 1892 South Greenland kayak is currently being replicated (Rijksmuseum
>Voor
>Volkenkunde no.1076-1) Golden
>
>I'd be happy to learn of others doing such experiential research, and I'd
>also be glad to share my experiences with others.
> Sincerely,
> Harvey Golden –new Mailing List member.
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Douglas Ingram
Red River Canoe & Paddle
P.O. Box 78, GRP 4, RR 2
Lorette, Manitoba
Canada
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