Jack Fu wrote: > Very interesting point Gerald. I didn't know that euro paddles > were available to the eskimos but they did not adopt them. > When offered something really useful (rifles, snowmobiles, > processed foods, etc.), they adopt them quickly. > > Jack Unfortunately, the massive decrease of traditional hunting techniques started in this time. We gave them our share by providing valuable things for their lives like alcohol ... The german film expedition stayed for several months in West Greenland and had strong support by the local eskimo community. Knut Rasmussen made the close contact to the local kayakers possible, otherwise it would have been impossible to get so many hunters into one place. At the end of the german version of the film you can see lots of Greenlanders picking up their kayaks, running to the beach and sealstarting with the kayaks. Dr. A. Fanck planned to use thousands of meters where he filmed the eskimos social live etc. which were not used in the film afterward for ethnological films but some idiot dumped them after cutting SOS Eisberg. Very interesting is the fact that you can see a skeg attached with ropes to one of the kayaks and several paddling kayakers. Gerald *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat May 12 2001 - 15:25:20 PDT
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