Subject: baidarka how to borrow Skinboats in Greenland
From: Robert Morris (brewerycreek@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 15:50:15 EST
Chris
It is Skinboats OF Greenland, not Skinboats in Greenland
My first viewing of the book was through an inter library loan. There is a
copy in the University of British Columbia library that I was able to borrow
for a few days in 1997. It was on some sort of permanently renewing loan to
a professor, but inter library loans trump renewals and when he brought it
in to renew it, it was made available for my research.
Robert
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Subject: baidarka Skinboats in Greenland - Collection of old photos
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:32:24 -0500
I'm begining to think that there are two different books entitled "Skinboats
in Greenland" by H.C. Petersen. In trying to avoid the high cost of the book
and shipping from Nuuk, Greenland, I found a used book store in Copenhagen
that listed a copy on its web site. I bought it and a copy of Petersen's
"Instruction in Kayak Building" and thought I had found a great bargain. It
wasn't until I started reading Arima's "Inuit Kayaks in Canada" in which he
specifically refers to "a chapter on Greenland kayak types..." in Skinboats
that I thought that what I had bought is not the same book. A look at the
bibliography on Harvey Golden's website yields additional evidence. He
describes Skinboats as having "sections from earlier writers and researchers
such as Birket-Smith..." The copy of Skinboats I have was published in 1987
(they both list the publishing date as 1986) and, other than a brief
foreword,
consists entirely of old photographs of kayaks and umiaks, along with a very
brief description of each photo. The photos range from a 1885 image of the
colony manager in a kayak, wearing a top hat, suit coat and white shirt, to
a
1986 image of a kayak training session at Nuuk. Most of the photos are from
the 1920's and 30's and show kayakers hunting and fishing, with some shots
of
kayak building and rolling, and umuak use as watercraft and temporary
shelter.
The photos are very interesting, but I would still like to see a copy of the
"other" Skinboats.
Anyone interested in a temporary swap?
Chris Stewart
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