> You have seen the family tree that Ken Taylor has layed out depicting > the > early sequence of the evolution of the Igdlorssuit kayak???? > michael No...has he laid one out? I was under the impression that Mr. Taylor was somewhat unaware until recently of the successors of his kayak. Rob sent me an article from a now defunct kayaking magazine entitled "It's Inuit, in't it?", by Duncan Winning, I believe...I'll have to dig out my copy. That article described the evolution between the Illorsuit kayak and the present-day Anas Acuta. >From what I understand, Igdlorssuit is the "old" orthography for the same town name now spelled "Illorsuit". As much as my excruciatingly poor Greenlandic pronounciation and not-so-good phonetic spelling will let me type, the town's name is pronounced I-khlor-su-it. The Greenlandic double-l is pronounced with sort of a throat-clearing sound. That understood, it's easy to see how that pronounciation could be spelled both ways. Shawn *************************************************************************** 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 Aug 10 2004 - 21:45:34 PDT
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