paddle guard, Micmac, 64 



paddler's seat, kayak-form canoe, 163; kayak, 194 

 paint (on canoes), Malecite, 77; fur-trade, 150, 151 

 Passamaquoddy Indians, 70 



canoe, 74, 75, 82, 83 

 Peabody Museum (Salem, Mass.), 5, 74, 168 

 peg, outwale, 48, 117; keel, 96 

 Peterborough canoe, 65 

 Pennacook Indians, 88 

 Penobscot Bay, 7 

 Penobscot Indians, 70 

 Pepysian Library, 176 

 Pequawket Indians, 88 

 Perrot, Nicholas, 215 

 Pillagers (Indian tribe), 122 

 pine, white, bark, 213 

 plane, smoothing (tool), 21 

 planking (see sheathing) 

 Plains Indians, 220 

 Point Barrow (village), 187 

 Point Barrow kayak, 200, 204 

 Point Hope (village), 188 

 Pond Inlet, 206 

 porpoise-hunting canoe, 74, 75 

 portage canoe, 58, 65, 123 (Ojibway) 

 portaging, canoe, 122, 151, 152; Umiak, 188; kayak, igi, 



'99 

 Poterie, Bacqueville de la, 12, 215 

 prah, Malay, 189 

 Pribilof Islands, 196 

 Prince William Sound, 196 



quill decoration, Micmac, 68 



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



rake of ends, kayak-form canoe, 159, 164; umiak, 182, 187, 

 1 90; kayak, 208 



ram-form, 34, <68 



Ramezay, chateau de, 78 



rawhide, sewing with, 132, 158 (see sewing; stitching; 

 lashing) 



Red Paint People (Indian tribe), 94 



Repulse Bay, 204 



Restigouche canoe, 65 



ribs (see frames) 



risers, umiak, 182, 187 ff., kayak, 190 



river canoe, Malecite, 70-79 



Riviere du Loup, 78 



rocker (camber; convex lengthwise curve of keel), 28, 37, 38, 

 41; effect of gores on 57; Micmac, 59, 63: Labrador, 

 99, 100; Eastern Cree, loi; Algonkin, 113; Ojibway, 

 125; Western Cree, 132; fur-trade, 136; Northwest, 

 155; kayak-form, 159, 164; umiak, 182, 184, 188, 189; 

 kayak, 205, 206, 211; elm-bark canoe, 214 



roots, for sewing, 15, 16; varieties used, 16; splitting and 

 peeling, 20 



Ross, Sir James Clark, 208 



rudder, umiak, 187, 189 



Russian influence on skin boat design, 175, if 



192, 197 



Saginaw (Michigan), 123 



Saguenay River, 99 



sails, canoe, Micmac, 65, 66, 67; Passamaquody, 75; 

 Malecite, 75; Eastern Cree, 106; fur-trade, 152; 

 narrow-bottom, 158; blanket (Iroquois), 219; umiak, 

 175, 182, 183, 187, 189 

 kayak, 195 

 umiak 175, 182, 183, 187, 189, 190 



St. Croix River, 70 



St. Francis Abnaki Indians, 88 



canoe, 88-93; dimensions, 89, 114, 115 



St. John Lake, 99 



St. John River, 70 



St. Joseph Lake, 132 



St. Lawrence Island, 197 



St. Lawrence River, 5, 13, 70, 78 



St. Matthew (Alaska), 196 



St. Maurice River, 107 



St. Michaels kayak, 200 



Salish Indians, 168, 172 



Saltreaux (Indian tribe), 122 



sampan, 191, 192, 205, 21 i 



scale-model canoe, 4, 5 



Schenectady boat, 13 



scow, 13 



scraper (tool), 19 



sea otter hunting, 197 



seal, bearded, 188, 195 



Sekani Indians, kayak-form canoe, 159 



setting up canoe (on building bed), 37, 38, 40, 44, 45 



Seton, Ernest Thompson, 4 



sewing (stitching, lashing), 15, 29, 30; on building bed, 42, 

 43, 44, 45, 48, 49, 50; Micmac, 63; Malecite, 79; 

 St. Francis Abnaki, 91; Eastern Cree, loi; Tetes de 

 Boule, 108, 109; Algonkin, 120; rawhide, 132, 158; 

 narrow-bottom, 158; kayak-form, 162; sturgeon-nose, 

 168; skin cover, 186, 188, 190; kayak, 193, 194, 196; 

 temporary canoe, 220 



Sharp, Minnie Bell (Mrs. Edwin Tappan Adney), 4 



Sharpie (boat type), 191, 206, 208 



shaving horse (tool), 22 



sheathing, 19, 73, 77; fitting of, 32 ff., 51, 52; Malecite, 50, 

 51, 75; Micmac, 63, 64; St. Francis, 90; Eastern Cree, 

 105; Tetes de Boule, iio; Algonkin, 121, 122; fur- 

 trade, 149; narrow-bottom, 158; sturgeon-nose, 168, 

 172; temporary canoe, 218, 220 



sheer (rise in lengthwise line of gunwale), 47, 52, 56; 

 hogged, 55, 62, 63; Micmac, 59; Malecite, 70; 

 Beothuk, 94, 96 ff.; Algonkin, 114, 117, fur-trade, 

 136, 148; Northwest, 155, 156; kayak-form, 159, 164, 

 165, 166, 167; umiak, 182, 183, 187, 189, 190; kayak. 

 200, 204 ff., 208, 21 1 



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