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flat deck; manhole in center, with waterproof skin garment worn 

 b}^ Eskimo kaiakers fastened around its rim. Kaiak made by cover- 

 ing light wood frame with sealskins sewed together Avith sinews. 



Dimensions of kaiak. — Length over all, 18 feet 7 inches; width, 

 21f inches; depth, 11 inches; paddle, 7 feet 5 inches; harpoon, 7 

 feet 9f inches ; lance, 7 feet 1 inch ; bird spear, 5 feet 7 inches. Scale 

 of model, 2J inches equal 1 foot. 

 Deposited by Mrs. M. M. Hazen. Cat. Xo. 129,8U U.S.X.M. 



Model of kaiak. 



Type used by the Eskimo of Tusiak, North Greenland, for lump- 

 ing and fishing. Made of seal skin stretched over a light wooden 

 frame, and securely fastened around the manhole; entirely covered, 

 except the manhole where the Eskimo sits ; long, sharp, overhanging, 

 pointed ends, tipped with bone knob, and with a bone shoe or 

 cutwater extending from the extremity to the bottom ; rising floor ; 

 flaring sides : rather straight on top ; fitted with thongs of seal 

 skin passing through bone leaders and so arranged as to hold spears 

 and other equii:)ment ; figure of Eskimo seated in manhole, with 

 waterproof garment tied around rim of manhole and double-bladed 

 paddle in hands. 



Dimensions of l-aiak. — Length, 17 feet 3 inches: width, 2 feet; 

 depth, 10 inches; paddle, 6 feet long. Scale of model, 1^ inches equal 

 1 foot. Cat. Xo. 14,150 U. S. N. M. 



BIRCH-BARK CANOES. 



Birch-tark canoe. 



Used by the Passamaquoddy tribe of Indians, near Eastport, Me. 

 A sharp-ended, round bottom, keelless canoe with tumble-home top 

 sides; curved ends; good sheer; open, five gunwale braces, made of 

 birch bark sewn together and stretched over a light wooden frame, 

 being sewed with root fiber at the ends and around the gunwales. 



Dimensions of canoe. — Length, 19 feet 8 inches; beam, 3 feet; 

 depth, 13 inches. Cat. Xo. 160,340 U. S. XL M. 



Bircli-bark canoe. 



Used b}' OjibAva Indians of Wisconsin. An open, sharp-ended, 

 round bottom, keelless canoe: ends turned up and curvecl inward; 

 false gunwales nailed on; two single-bladed paddles with oar-shaped 

 blades. 



Dimensions of canoe. — Length, 13 feet; beam, 3 feet; depth, lOJ 

 inches. 

 Collected bv W. J. Hoffman. Cat. Xo. 168,192 U.S.X.M. 



