More than just pictures of the various replicas Harvey has made -- also includes pictorial essays of trips he has made, one to Baffin Island, and another down 800 miles of the Columbia River (source to Umatilla, OR): http://home.pacifier.com/~qayaq/index.htm -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Dave, Thanks for the link. Harvey's page is very well done and thorough too! What a treasure this person is. Interestingly, I was in Copenhagen two weeks ago, and I saw the Greenland kayaking display at the Danish National Museum. They have about a dozen boats on display, plus lots of paddles, harpoons, and all other sorts of paddling gear. Very impressive. 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. In all, it was a spectacular display of kayaking history... there was one sealskin kayak in a "touch me" display. I also saw the Aleut boat that Harvey paddled down the Columbia river. It seemed more like a canoe than a kayak. There was also a book for sale with extremely explicit instructions for constructing a Greenland kayak in the traditional method. Too bad it was in Danish, or I would have bought it. Cheers, Kevin At 12:29 PM 11/2/00 -0800, Dave Kruger wrote: >More than just pictures of the various replicas Harvey has made -- also >includes pictorial essays of trips he has made, one to Baffin Island, and >another down 800 miles of the Columbia River (source to Umatilla, OR): >http://home.pacifier.com/~qayaq/index.htm > >-- >Dave Kruger >Astoria, OR Kevin Whilden Your Planet Earth http://www.yourplanetearth.org (206) 788-0281 (ph) (206) 788-0284 (f) *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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/ ***************************************************************************
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