From: "John Winters" <735769@ican.net>
To: <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
Subject: Re: baidarka for good measure
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:17:12 -0500
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Hall <chall@totalsports.net>
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
Date: March 13, 1999 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: baidarka for good measure
(SNIP)
>
>Well, surely they didn't pass the bumb ones down to the next generation!
>And after they found one that worked, they never strayed far from the
>magic formula. Is there much variation in native designs within a single
>region?
Eugene Arima postulates a rather conservative nature among Inuit groups. It
makes sense to me since staying alive challenged them and the kind of
wasteful experimentation that characterizes modern development must have
seemed a luxury.
Nevertheless, considerable differences appear to have occurred regionally
and one can only guess at know how much effect the mixing of groups had and
why.
Cheers,
John Winters
Redwing Designs
Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft
http://home.ican.net/~735769/