keg (in fur trade), 142 



Kennebec Indians, 70 



King Island kayak, 194, 199, 200 



King Island umiak, 187 



Kipewa Post (Hudson's Bay Company), 151 



knife, stone, 19; crooked, 21, 23 



Kodiak Island, 181, 192 



Kodiak Island kayak, 195, 196, 197, 199 



Koryak umiak, 182, 189 



Koryak kayak, 192, 195 



Kotzebue Sound, 188, 200; kayak, 200 



Krusenstern, Cape, 200, 204 



Krusenstern kayak, 200, 204 



Kutenai (Kootenay) Indians, 168, 172 



Labrador, 99, 191, 192, 205, 206 



Labrador kayak, 205, 206 



Laet, Joann de, 94 



LaFiteau, 12, 215 



LaHontan, Baron de, 8, 10, 215 



larch, splitting qualities, 17 



La Salle, Robert Cavalier de, 8 



lashing, canoe gunwale, 31 ff., 44, 45, 48; Micmac, 60; 



Tetes de Boule, 108, 109; Aigonkin, 120; fur-trade, 



149; narrow-bottom, 155, 156; kayak-form, 159, 



160-166; sturgeon-nose, 169 

 lashing skin cover, 186, 188, 190 (see also sewing, stitching) 

 lathing (see sheathing) 

 light (express) canoe, 137, 141 

 London Chronicle, 4 

 long-nose canoe, 125, 130, 132 

 longitudinal strength (see gunwale, keelson chine, keel, 



stringers, etc.) 

 Loucheux Indians, 154; kayak-form canoe, 161, 166 



MacKcnzie, Alexander, 13 



MacKenzie Basin canoe, 159, 161, 162 



Mackenzie River, 154, 181, 191 



Mackenzie River kayak, 202, 204 



ma'ttre canot (see fur-trade canoe), 99, 106, 122, 135, 138, 



•51. '53 

 Malecite Indians, 4, 10; composition of tribe, 70; 



canoe, 114, 115; sheathing, 34; construction, 36-57; 



bark covers over gunwale ends, 48; described, 70-88; 



ends, 70, 76, 77; of spruce bark, 72; temporary (skin), 



219, 221; dimensions of, 73ff., 78, 79 

 Manitoba, 99, 132 

 maple, hard, splitting qualities, 17 

 Marquette, Father Jacques, 8 



Mariners' Museum (Newport News, Va.), 4, 5, 187 

 mast, Micmac, 65, 66, 67; tripod, 182 

 Matachewan Post (Hudson's Bay Company), 151 

 Matagama Post (Hudson's Bay Company), 151 

 maul, 19, 23 

 McGill L'niversity Museum, 4 



measurement, of canoes, early, 7, 8, 9; units of (French), 



8, 36; Indian, 36, 37, 50, 51, 92, 93 

 Melville Peninsula, 204 

 Memphremagog, Lake, 88 

 Menominee Indians, 122, 123 

 Micmac Indians, 10, 12, 58 



canoe, 12, 27; sheathing, 34; described, 58-69; ends, 

 58, 59; form, 59; construction, 62, 63; range, 65 

 migrations, Indian, 5; effect on canoes, 27 

 Missinaibi River, 132 



Missinaibi Post (Hudson's Bay Company), 151 

 Mohigan Indians, 88 



Montagnais Indian canoe, 34, 99, 100, 106 

 Montreal, 8, 10, 13 



Moose Factory (Hudson's Bay Comapny Post), 132 

 moosehide canoe, 72, 219 

 multichine hull, kayak, 154, 175, 191, 199 



nabiska (rabeska; see fur-trade canoe), 122, 135 



Nahane Indian kayak-form canoe, 159 



nail, in canoe construction, 66, 69, 1 17 



nadowe chiman (see fur-trade canoe), 136 



narrow-bottom canoe, 113, 114, 135, 154-158; Northwest, 



'55- '57; spruce bark, 158 

 Nascapee Indians, 99, too 



National Maritime Museum (Greenwich, England), 12 

 Netsilik kayak, 204 

 Nipigon, Lake, 123 

 New Bedford whaleboat, 187 

 North Alaskan whaling umiak, 187, 188 

 North Bay (Ontario), 125 

 north canoe (see fur-trade canoe), 135 

 North West Company, 136, 138, 143, 152 

 North West narrow-bottom canoe (see narrow-bottom), 



'55-157 

 Norton Sound kayak, 200 

 Nunivak Island kayak, 192, 197, 199, 200 



Oar, umiak, i8q, 183, 187 ff. 

 Ojibway Indians, 122 



canoe, sheathing, 34; construction, 1 22-131, 171 

 Oka, Lake, 1 1 3 

 one-piece bark canoe, 212 

 open-water canoe, 58; sails, 64; dimensions, 65 

 Ossipee Indians, 88 

 Ottawa River, 12, 113 

 Outing Magazine, 4 

 outwale (see gunwale) 

 owner's mark, 83, 84, 85 

 overhang, in ends of kayak-form canoe, 159 



paddle, material and manufacture, 53; Micmac, 66, 67, 69 

 Malecite, 80, 81, 82; Beothuk, 96; Eastern Cree, 116 

 Tetes de Boules, 112; Aigonkin, 122; Ojibway, 130 

 Western Cree, 133; fur-trade, 152; kayak-form, 163 

 umiak, 182, 183, 187 ff., kayak, 195 



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