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Subject(s)

• Indigenous peoples of North America—Boats [Browse]
• Canoes and canoeing—North America [Browse]
• Skin boats—North America [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Related name

• Chapelle, Howard Irving [Browse]

Notes

Originally published: Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution, 1964 in series: Bulletin ; 230.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-234) and index.

Contents

• Foreword / John McPhee
• 1. Early History
• 2. Materials and Tools
• 3. Form and Construction
• Form
• Construction
• 4. Eastern Maritime Region
• Micmac
• Malecite
• St. Francis
• Beothuk
• 5. Central Canada
• Eastern Cree
• Tetes de Boule
• Algonkin
• Ojibway
• Western Cree
• Fur-Trade Canoes
• 6. Northwestern Canada
• Narrow-Bottom Canoe
• Kayak-Form Canoe
• Sturgeon-Nose Canoe
• 7. Arctic Skin Boats / Howard I. Chapelle
• The Umiak
• The Kayak
• 8. Temporary Craft
• Bark Canoes
• Skin Boats
• Retrospect
• Appendix. The Kayak Roll / John D. Heath.

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ISBN

• 9781602390713 (alk. paper)
• 1602390711 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007015963

OCLC

124031766

RCP

C - S

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