Special acknowledgment

Is here gratefully made to The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia, under whose auspices was prepared and with whose cooperation is here published the part of this work based on the Adney papers; also to the late Vilhjalmur Stefansson, for whose Encyclopedia Arctica was written the chapter on Arctic skin boats.

Contents

Page
Introduction[1]
1.Early History7
2.Materials and Tools[14]
3.Form and Construction[27]
Form[27]
Construction[36]
4.Eastern Maritime Region[58]
Micmac[58]
Malecite[70]
St. Francis[88]
Beothuk[94]
5.Central Canada[99]
Eastern Cree[101]
Têtes de Boule[107]
Algonkin[113]
Ojibway[122]
Western Cree[132]
Fur-trade Canoes[135]
6.Northwestern Canada[154]
Narrow-Bottom Canoe[155]
Kayak-Form Canoe[158]
Sturgeon-Nose Canoe[168]
7.Arctic Skin Boats: by Howard I. Chapelle[174]
The Umiak[181]
The Kayak[190]
8.Temporary Craft[212]
Bark Canoes[212]
Skin Boats[219]
Retrospect[221]
Appendix: The Kayak Roll, by John D. Heath[223]
Bibliography[231]
Index[235]

Illustrations