Scale of model is 2 inches to the foot, giving a 

 length of 17 feet, beam 3 feet l}i inches, depth inside 

 16 inches, and oars 6 feet 2 inches long. 



Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



LOUISIANA PIROGUE, 1886 

 Rigged Model, usnm 160353 



This model, from Assumption Parish, Louisiana, is 

 of the same type as the dugout canoe shown above. 

 These craft were employed on the bayous, rivers, and 

 along the protected coastal waters of Louisiana and 

 neighboring States in the fisheries as well as for 

 hunting and general transportation. 



This model represents a vessel made from a cypress 

 log shaped and hollowed to form a sharp-bowed open 

 canoe having a narrow flat bottom, a round easy- 

 bilge, a flaring topside, a long, sharp, and slightly 

 hollow entrance, an easy run, slight sheer, a straight 

 keel, or bottom line, with the stem curved at forefoot 

 and nearly straight and upright above, and the stern 

 slightly raking and formed into a narrow V-shaped 

 transom. The model, the appearance roughly that 

 of a narrow Whitehall rowboat, is fitted with two 

 sets of tholes on a side and a seat at each end, with 

 risers shown for shifting the thwarts amidships. 



Scale of model is 1 inch to the foot, for a vessel 

 having a length of 17 feet 8 inches, beam 30 inches, 

 and depth inside 1 1 '2 inches. 



Given by U . S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



LOUISIANA PIROGUE, 1946 

 Full Size Craft, usnm 314923 



A dugout (made of a single red-cypress log) of 

 the type employed on the bayous of southern Loui- 

 siana, this craft is of the small, one-man, hunting 

 and fishing type, and was built by Ebdon Allemand 

 in 1 946 as part of the Acadian Bicentennial Cele- 

 bration. A motion picture film record was made of 

 the construction of the canoe, showing the traditional 

 methods employed in building pirogues. 



The canoe is 12 feet long and 23 inches wide at 

 gunwale and about 10 inches deep. It is double- 

 ended, with rather straight sheer, bottom straight for 

 most of its length, but rockered toward each end 

 in the last Iji feet. The bow and stern are curved 

 in profile; the midsection is formed with a flat 

 bottom, quick turn of Ijilge, and flaring topsides; 

 and the entrance and run are nearly alike, sharp with 

 slight hollow close to stem and stern. This canoe has 

 thin sides and is light enough to l^e carried by one 



man. It is fair and smooth and very well finished. 

 With paddle. 

 From E.SSO Standard Oil Clompany, New York. 



COLUMBIA RIVER SALMON BOAT, 1876 

 Rigged Model, usnm 22216 



This type of boat was introduced on the Pacific 

 coast in 1868 for use of the gill-net fishermen at San 

 Francisco, California. In 1869 one of these boats was 

 sold to a fisherman for use on the lower Columbia 

 River, and there the model was extensively copied. 

 The early boats were 22 to 23 feet long but in the late 

 1880"s the length reached 28 feet, which apparendy 

 i)ecame the standard. The type was also introduced 

 into the British Columbian and .Alaskan fisheries. 



CoLUMBi.\ River .S.almon Bo.^ts, unriggfd, about 

 1 9 1 4. (Sniithsrmian photo 46597-c.) 



The San Francisco boats usually had a leg-of-mutton 

 sail, but elsewhere the spritsail was employed. -All 

 had centerboards and a single mast and sail. 



The model shows a sharp-stern, caravel-planked, 

 centcrboard, sailing hull, having sharp entrance and 

 run, the latter the finer of the two and both with hol- 

 low in the lower waterlines; full-ended at deck; 

 strong sheer; straight keel; straight and rather up- 

 right sternpost; no rudder shown but one would 

 normally be fitted to the upright curved stem; wash- 

 boards along gunwales, with low coaming. The 

 midsection shows a rising straight floor, low and rather 

 hard bilge, and upright topside. The model is 

 fitted to row, having three thwarts and three oars. 

 .\ mast is stepped in a clamp well forward, and 

 rigged with a single spritsail (on occasion a sprit 

 boom was used). 



Scale of model is 1 inch to the foot, giving; a boat 

 25 feet 6 inches at gunwale, 6 feet 3 inches beam, 2 



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