Subject: Re: [baidarka] Ready for sealing - Nunivak (The North American
From: kyak@rockisland.com
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 10:20:31 EDT
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On Nunivak it would be called a "qayar" , pl. "qayat" with
the "r" sounding much like a "q". In the rest of the
Yukon-Kuskokwim delta where this style of kayak
originates its called "qayaq".
> If it is covered with skin and was "discovered" by a Russian it would
> be a Baidarka. Otherwise it would be a baidarki or bidarky or kayak or
> quayak or kaiak or canoe, etc., if you catch my drift.
> Douglas Huft
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