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| 1 | Fur-trade canoe on the Missinaibi River, 1901. (Canadian Geological Survey photo.) | 2 |
| 2 | Page from a manuscript of 1771, "Observations on Hudsons Bay," by Alexander Graham, Factor. (In archives of Hudson's Bay Company.) | 9 |
| 3 | Canoes from LaHontan's Nouveaux Voyages ... dans l'Amerique septentrionale, showing crude representations typical of early writers. | 11 |
| 4 | Lines of an old birch-bark canoe, probably Micmac, brought to England in 1749 from New England. (From Admiralty Collection of Draughts, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.) | 12 |
| 5 | Ojibway Indian carrying spruce roots, Lac Seul, Ont., 1919. (Canadian Geological Survey photo.) | 15 |
| 6 | Roll of bark for a hunting canoe. Algonkin Reserve, at Golden Lake, Ont., 1927. | 16 |
| 7 | Sketch: wood-splitting techniques, cedar and spruce. | 17 |
| 8-19 | Sketches of tools: 8, stone axe; 9, stone hammer, wedge, and knife; 10, mauls and driving sticks; 11, stone scraper; 12, bow drill; 13, modern Hudson Bay axe; 14, steel fur-trade tomahawk; 15, steel canoe awls; 16, crooked knives; 17, froe; 18, shaving horse; 19, bucksaw. | 17 |
| 20 | Peeling, rolling, and transporting bark. (Sketches by Adney.) | 25 |
| 21 | Sketch: Building frame for a large canoe. | 26 |
| 22, 23 | Sketches: Effect on canoe bottom of crimping and goring bark. | 30 |
| 24 | Sketch: Canoe formed by use of gores and panels. | 31 |
| 25 | Gunwale ends nailed and wrapped with spruce roots. (Sketch by Adney.) | 31 |
| 26 | Gunwales and stakes on building bed, plan view. (Sketch by Adney.) | 32 |
| 27 | Photo: Gunwale lashings, examples made by Adney. | 33 |
| 28 | Photo: Gunwale-end lashings, examples made by Adney. | 33 |
| 29 | Sketch: Splints arranged in various ways to sheath the bottom of a canoe. | 34 |
| 30 | End details, including construction of stem-pieces. (Sketches by Adney.) | 35 |
| 31 | Lines of 2½-fathom St. John River Malecite canoe. | 36 |
| 32 | Malecite canoe building, 1910. (Canadian Geological Survey photos.) | 39 |
| 33 | First stage of canoe construction: assembled gunwale frame is used to locate stakes temporarily on building bed. (Sketch by Adney.) | 40 |
| 34 | Second stage of canoe construction: bark cover is laid out on the building bed, and the gunwales are in place upon it. (Sketch by Adney.) | 41 |
| 35 | Photo: Malecite canoe builders near Fredericton, N.B., using wooden plank building bed. | 42 |
| 36 | Sketch: Two common styles of root stitching used in bark canoes. | 43 |
| 37 | Comparison of canoe on the building bed and canoe when first removed from building bed during fifth stage of construction. (Detail sketches by Adney.) | 44 |
| 38 | Third stage of canoe construction: the bark cover is shaped on the building bed. (Sketch by Adney.) | 45 |
| 39 | Cross section of canoe on building bed during third and fourth stages of construction. (Sketch by Adney.) | 46 |
| 40 | Sketch: Multiple cross section through one side of a canoe on the building bed, at the headboard, middle, first, and second thwarts. | 46 |
| 41 | Fourth stage of canoe construction: bark cover has been shaped and all stakes placed. (Sketch by Adney.) | 47 |
| 42 | Fifth stage of canoe construction: canoe is removed from building bed and set on horses to shape ends and complete sewing. (Sketch by Adney.) | 49 |
| 43 | Ribs being dried and shaped for Ojibway canoe. (Canadian Geological Survey photo.) | 50 |
| 44 | Sketch: Details of ribs and method of shaping them i
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| 135 | Lines of a 4½-fathom Hudson's Bay Company "North Canoe," built by Crees near James Bay, mid-19th century. | 143 |
| 136 | Photo: 5-fathom fur-trade canoe from Brunswick House, a Hudson's Bay Company post. | 144 |
| 137 | Fur-trade canoes on the Missinaibi River, 1901. (Canadian Geological Survey photo.) | 145 |
| 138 | Photo: Fur-trade canoe brigade from Christopherson's Hudson's Bay Company post, about 1885. | 146 |
| 139 | Forest rangers, Lake Timagami, Ontario. (Canadian Pacific Railway Company photo.) | 147 |
| 140 | Photo: Models made by Adney of fur-trade canoe stem-pieces. | 149 |
| 141 | Photo: Models by Adney of fur-trade canoe stem-pieces. | 151 |
| 142 | Portaging a 4½-fathom fur-trade canoe, about 1902, near the head of the Ottawa River. (Canadian Pacific Railway Company photo.) | 152 |
| 143 | Decorations, fur-trade canoes (Watercolor sketch by Adney.) | 153 |
| 144 | Lines of 2-fathom Chipewyan hunter's canoe. | 155 |
| 145 | Lines of 2½-fathom Chipewyan and 3-fathom Dogrib cargo, or family, canoes. | 156 |
| 146 | Lines of 3-fathom Slavey and 2½-fathom Algonkin-type Athabascan plank-stem canoes. | 157 |
| 147 | Lines of Eskimo kayak-form birch-bark canoe from Alaskan Coast. | 159 |
| 148 | Lines of Athabascan hunting canoes of the kayak form. | 160 |
| 149 | Lines of extinct forms of Loucheux and bateau-form canoes, reconstructed from old models. | 161 |
| 150 | Lines of kayak-form canoes of the Alaskan Eskimos and Canadian Athabascan Indians. | 163 |
| 151 | Lines of kayak-form canoe of British Columbia and upper Yukon valley. | 164 |
| 152 | Construction of kayak-form canoe of the lower Yukon, showing rigid bottom frame. (Smithsonian Institution photo.) | 165 |
| 153 | Photo: Model of an extinct form of Athabascan type birch-bark canoe, of British Columbia. In Peabody Museum, Harvard University. | 167 |
| 154 | Lines of sturgeon-nose bark canoe of the Kutenai and Shuswap. | 169 |
| 155 | Ojibway canoe construction. (Canadian Geological Survey photos.) | 170-171 |
| 156 | Photo: Indians with canoe at Alert Bay, on Cormorant Island, B. C. | 173 |
| 157 | Eighteenth-century lines drawing of a kayak, from Labrador or southern Baffin Island. | 175 |
| 158 | Western Alaskan umiak with eight women paddling, Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, 1936. (Photo by Henry B. Collins.) | 177 |
| 159 | Western Alaskan umiak being beached, Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, 1936. (Photo by Henry B. Collins.) | 177 |
| 160 | Repairing umiak frame at St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, 1930. (Photo by Henry B. Collins.) | 178 |
| 161 | Eskimo woman splitting walrus hide to make umiak cover, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, 1930. (Photo by Henry B. Collins.) | 178 |
| 162 | Fitting split walrus-hide cover to umiak at St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, 1930. (Photo by Henry B. Collins.) | 179 |
| 163 | Outboard motor installed on umiak, Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, 1936. (Photo by Henry B. Collins.) | 179 |
| 164 | Launching umiak in light surf, Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, 1936. (Photo by Henry B. Collins.) | 179 |
| 165 | Umiaks on racks, in front of village on Little Diomede Island, July 30, 1936. (Photo by Henry B. Collins.) | 181 |
| 166 | Umiak covered with split walrus hide, Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska. (Photo by Henry B. Collins.) | 183 |
| 167 | Lines of small umiak for walrus hunting, west coast of Alaska. 1888-89 | The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America [Pg xvi]
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