Jack Fu writes: > When the Eskimos (or related peoples) designed their paddles, > what materials did they have to work with? Driftwood? Bone? Driftwood with (in Greenland) bone edges. But that driftwood included some pretty large logs, and many Inuit paddles had wider, lanceolate-shaped blades than the modern Greenland paddle, which appears to be only a few hundred years old. I think the main reason for the narrowness of the Greenland blade is to allow it to be held anywhere along its length. In Baffin Island and many other places, paddle blades were much too wide for this. Chuck Holst *************************************************************************** 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 Tue May 15 2001 - 13:22:33 PDT
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