Some of the boats that weren't East > Greenland style seemed very poorly constructed however. Some seemed bent or > warped or had just plain weird lines. It made me wonder if these boats were > constructed after the smallpox epidemics had wiped out the true kayak > artisans from the non-Greenlandic cultures, and hence these were not > examples of the pinnacle of kayak design. Food for thought, I guess. Interesting conjecture Kevin. the artisans were always the first to go... Harvey Golden seemed to think that the finest examples of kayak design and craftsmanship would have never been sold to the europeans, they were retained as valuable tools. Guess the euros were treated as tourists and got the souvenir editions. -- : : Gabriel L Romeu : http://studiofurniture.com furniture from the workshop : http://members.xoom.com/gabrielR life as a tourist, daily journal : http://studiofurniture.com/paint paintings, photographs, etchings, objects *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Nov 03 2000 - 17:18:44 PST
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