Subject: RE: [baidarka] Paddle making
From: wolfgang brinck (nativewater@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Oct 06 2004 - 22:07:29 EDT
--- kschmidt <kschmidt@akutan.aesd.schoolaccess.net> wrote:
>
> So HOW did they do all this fancy work.... all the baidarkas I
> have
> seen were from post contact 1742 when the Aleuts had access to
> steel... are there any pre contact iqyax that for certain were made
>
> of stone age tools exclusively?
>
The Museum of the Aleutians in Dutch Harbor has a few kaykak parts
that they pulled out of some caves. I don't know if they carbon dated
them. They have two deck beams that are tenoned which means that the
gunwales must have had mortises cut in them. Probably used the same
mystery tool they made your wooden basket with.
Wolfgang
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