Subject: Re: baidarka Uh-oh!
From: wayne steffens (wsteffen@mr.net)
Date: Wed May 24 2000 - 01:20:03 EDT
Well, yes, I'm teasing in part. Actually the last HBC post in my area
closed about 93 years ago. ;-)
But caribou blood glue is no joke. Old caribou blood was masticated and
spewed forth to make a reportedly EXTREMELY strong glue. Amundsen and
others reported this from first hand experience, and he reported it was
actually better than the European glues that his ship carried. I have heard
from someone that has seen the original up close, that the main scarf on
the 28' AMNH Caribou kayak that Harvey Golden replicated was apparently
fastened with nothing other than blood glue. No pegs or lashings were in
evidence, just a dark "substance". Sometimes the gunnel end plates of
Caribou kayaks, which are scarfed side to side, were also fastened only
with blood glue, heated with a burning splints.
I'm also not teasing that I'm going to try it someday, although mine will
probably be whitetail deer blood, and I dont plan masticate it!
Wayne
At 08:24 PM 5/23/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Uh.... OK, at the risk of having you all laugh at me....
>
>Caribou blood glue?
>
>(and HBC would be Hudson's Bay Company? So you're just teasing, right?)
>
>-----Original Message-----
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