1932.11.0001
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kanot
- Object description
Barkkanot. Gunwales sewed with spruce roots. Topwale, pegged. Gum, spruce gum.
Köpt.
I brev till Baron E. Nordenskiöld dat. den 22.2.32 skriver försäljaren Mr. Adney:
Its exact length is 8' 8'', finely proportioned, these small canoes being built to carry a hunter and equipage, such a canoe as the Tetes de Boule would leave at their hunting camp on a lake. This is the smallest siza made, and from early French accounts canoes of "nine feet" were in regular use. It weights not voer 25 pounds- though I have not weighed it. No paddle is with it.---
I brev av 27,3 säger Mr. Adney vidare:
Birch Bark Canoe, Tetes de Boule, built at kempt Lake, Manouan Branch of St. Maurice River, P.Q. 1930 by Indian "Dubé, old man. Length on gunwale 8'8'', a "one and a half fathom", or "deux et demi brasse" (outstretched arms, old Indian meassure), the smallest size of one-man hunter's canoe.
Note thatspaces are makedde, in pencil, on gunwale as guide to the Indian women who sews with spruce roots. Formerly, Indian used a scratch-awl for such purposes.
End of one side gunwale broken off near end, that happened in building. Also top of endboard broken off, that happend in transit. Broken tip enclosed, can be easily attached. ---It is incredible light. Lightness, feature of the barks of America, object sought after by native engineer of the portage canoes.
Type of canoe, my eastern central (St. Lawrence) peculiar to Malecite group (N.B and E. Maine), St. Francis former Kenebecs sometimes called Abnakeis, and Tetes de Boule of St. Maurice, also related Indians of Lakes Grand Victoria and Barriere sources of Ottawa, formerly called Tetes de Boule, but distinct tribes. Similar canoes now canoes Algonkins in lower Ottawa and Ojibway proper west to Sault Ste. Marie, is hybrid form, the end form, but interior end-construction of the round end canoe of west central sub area, that came into use there in last century by advance of white man especially sportmen who carried with them canoes built mostly at St. Francis. It has replaced old Algonkin-Ojibway canoe, replacement due entirely to white man influences. In similar way with the large fur trade canoes, Algonkin-Ojibway type, intorduced by H. B. Company, and built locally by Tetes de Boule, and Crees, though displacing their own small canoes.
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