Index 



Abitibi, Lake, Post (Hudson's Bay Company), 151 

 Abitibi River, 132 

 Abnaki (Indians), 12 



canoe, 88-89; dimensions, 89, 1 14-1 15 

 Admiralty Collection of Draughts, 12, 13 

 Adney, Edwin Tappan, 4-5, 57, 100; papers, 4, 5, 6; 



parents, 4; wife, 4; work and career, 4-5 

 Adney, Glenn (son of E. T. A.), 4 

 Adney, H. H. (father of E. T. A.), 4 

 Adney, Minnie Bell Sharp (wife of E. T. A.), 4 

 Adney, Ruth Shaw (mother of E. T. A.), 4 

 Adney papers, 4, 5, 6 

 Alaska, 5, 181, 182 

 Alaskan canoe, 55 



Alaskan kayak, 154, 190, 191, 192, 195, 196 

 Alaskan umiak, 182, 183, 187 fT. 

 Albany boat, 13 

 Alberta, 132 



Aleutian Islands, 181, 183, 194 ff. 

 Aleutian kayak, 195 ff. 

 Algonkian Family, 99 



Algonkin (Indians), 99, 107, 113; canoe, 1 13-122 

 America (44-gun ship^ RN), 65 

 American Neptune (periodical), 74 

 American Museum of Natural History, 89, 195, 204 

 Androscoggin (Indians), 88 

 Anson, Lord, 12 



Art Students' League of New York, 4 

 ash, white, 17; black, 17; splitting qualities, 17 

 Asiatic kayak, 192, 195 

 Assiniboine (Indian tribe), 132 

 Athabaska, Lake, 132, 155 

 Athabascan Indians, 154, 156 

 awl, bone, ig; steel (canoe), 21 

 axe, steel, 20, 21; cedar, 21 



Baffin Island, 82, 189, 191, 192, 204, 206, 208; umiak, i8g, 



1 90; kayak, 204 ff. 

 baidarka (Russian kayak), 175 

 bang plate, 208 



bark, basswood, 15 



birch, 9, 55, 60, 63, 96, 120, 132, 147, 148, 154; descrip- 

 tion, 14-15; selection and preparation, 24-26; 

 handling, 29-31; use in building canoes, 41-51 

 butternut, 213 

 chestnut, 15, 213 

 Cottonwood, 15 

 elm, 15, 212 ff. 

 hickory, 15, 213, 217 



spruce, 15, 17, 24, 132, 158, 212, 213, 216 

 white pine, 213 

 bark cover, piecing, 42, 43, 45, 55; Micmac, 63; Beothuk, 

 98; Algonkin, 120; Western Cree, 132, 133; fur-trade, 

 147, 148; kayak-form, 162 

 Barri^rc, Lake, 107, 146 

 basket (pack), in fur trade, 143 

 basswood, bark, 15 

 bateau, 13 



bateau-shape canoe, 1 59-161 

 batten (in skin boat construction), 186, 188 fT., 195 fT., 



199, 204 fT., 208 

 Beard, Daniel, 4 



Beaver (Indians), 154; kayak-form canoe, 159 

 Beothuk (Indian tribe), 6, 94-98 



canoe, 94, 95; dimensions, 94, 98; form, 96; keel, 96, 

 97, 98; reconstruction of, 96 fT. 

 Bering Sea, 195 

 Bering Strait, 182, 189, 199 

 bifid bow, 196, 197 

 big river canoe, 58, 65 



birch bark, 9, 55, 60, 63, 96, 120, 132, 147, 148, 154; 

 description, 14-15; selection and preparation, 24-26; 

 handling, 29-31; use in building canoes, 41-51 

 bladder, skin (float), 194 

 Boas, Franz, 189, 204 

 boat, Arctic skin, 174-212; Viking, 187; temporary skin, 



219-220; bull, 220 

 Bogoras, Vladimir, 183 

 bola (hunting), 194 

 bone fittings, kayak, 193, 204, 208, 21 1 



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