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Large 3-Fathom Ocean Canoe of the Passamaquoddy porpoise hunters. 

 These canoes were sometimes fitted to sail or outriggcd for rowing. The 

 last of this type had much lower ends. 



The wulegcssis was therefore quite long. The ends of 

 the gunwales were not of the half-arrowhead shape, 

 but were snled off on their inboard sides so that they 

 met on a rather long bevel; the lashing was slightly 

 let in to the outboard faces to keep it from slipping 

 over the gunwale ends. The caps of the gunwales 

 were similarly reduced in width, where they came 

 together over the ends of the canoe. 



The main gunwale members were about 1 )4 inches 

 square amidships, tapering to % inch at the ends. 

 The lower outboard corner was beveled to take the 

 ends of the ribs, as shown on page 71, and the lower 

 inboard corner was also beveled or rounded, but to a 

 lesser degree. The upper inboard corner, shown 

 beveled in the drawing of figure 62, was sometimes 

 slightly rounded, as were the outwales. Amidships 

 the outwale was about 1 inch deep, and it tapered 

 toward the ends, where its depth was about % inch, 

 the thickness being ji inch amidships and a scant % 

 inch at the ends. On the canoe shown, the cap w'as 

 % inch thick, tapering to about Y^ inch at the ends, 

 and 1 Yf inches wide amidships, tapering to about % 

 or ); inch where the caps came together at the ends. 

 The top corners of the cap were beveled in the example. 



The sheathing appears to have been about Yia inch 

 thick on the average. On the bottom and sides it 

 was in two lengths, overlapping slightly amidships. 

 Toward the ends of the canoe the sheathing was ta- 

 pered, maximum width of the splints being about 4 

 inches amidships. 



The canoe, which was 18 feet 6 inches long overall, 

 had 46 ribs. These were about 3 inches wide and Ys 

 inch thick from the center to the first thwart out- 

 board on each side, and 2 inches wide from these 

 thwarts to the ends, except for the endmost five ribs, 

 which were roughly 1 % inches wide. The drawing on 

 page 71 shows the shape of the thwarts. The ends 

 were tenoned through the gunwales, and there were 

 three lacing holes in the ends of the middle and first 

 thwarts and two in the end thwarts. The beam of 

 the canoe inside the gunwales was 30 inches and out- 

 side, 3U4 inches; the tumble-home made the extreme 

 beam 35^2 inches. The canoe was rather flat bottomed 

 athwartships and quite shallow, the depth amidships 

 being 10^4 inches. 



The building bed must ha\c had about a IJ2 inch 

 crown at midlength. It is probable that the stem 

 pieces were not fixed in place until after the gun- 



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