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Birch-bark canoe. 



Type used by the Tinneli Indians for traveling, hunting, and fish- 

 ing on the rivers of northern Ahiska. It is made of birch bark, 

 Avhich covers a light wooden frame and is held to the gunwales by 

 lashings of root fiber; seams pitched. The canoe has long, sharp, 

 raking ends; flat bottom; flaring sides; and a deck at one end for 

 a length of 5 feet ; four gunwale braces. 



Dimensions of canoe. — Length, 18 feet; beam, 26^ inches; depth, 

 12^ inches. 

 Collected by J. Henry Turner. Cat. No. 166,934 U.S.N.M. 



Birch-bark canoe. 



Type used by the Kootenay Indians of Washington State. It is 

 made of a light wooden frame covered with spruce bark. Bow and 

 stern are alike and terminate in ram-shaped points on a line with 

 the bottom of the canoe ; flat bottom ; straight sides. 



Dimensions of canoe. — Length, 15 feet 7 inches; beam, 21^ inches; 

 depth, 13 inches; oval opening in top, 9 feet 3 inches long. 

 Collected by Amherst W. Barber. Cat. Xo. 204,581 U.S.N.M. 



FIG. 63. — KOOTENAY IXDIAX SPKUCE-BAKK CANOE. 



Model of birch-bark canoe. 



Used by Indians on the rivers of northern Alaska. A covering of 

 birch bark is stretched over a light wooden frame, and lashed over 

 the gunwales with fiber of cedar roots. The canoe is open, with 

 sharp, overhanging, pointed ends, flat b(*ttom, and flaring sides. 



Dimensions of canoe. — Length, IT feet 9f inches; width, 3 feet 

 I inch ; depth, 17^ inches. Scale of model, 2^ inches equal 1 foot. 

 Deposited by the Bureau of Fisheries. Cat. No. 76,278 U.S.N.M. 



Model of birch-bark canoe. 



Used for hunting and fishing by the Indians on the rivers empty- 

 ing into Bristol Bay, Alaska. An open, sharp-ended, round-bottom, 

 keelless canoe; made by covering a light wood frame with birch 

 bark sewn together with root fiber and lashed over gunwales with 

 same material; seams and joints covered with pitch. 



Dimensions of canoe. — Length, 17 feet 4 inches; width, 4 feet 

 8 inches; depth, 3 feet 6 inches. Scale of model, three-fourths inch 

 equals 1 foot. Cat. No. 55,906 U.S.N.M. 



