[Paddlewise] Polar Inuit paddles

Harvey said:

"The only Greenland paddles I've seen with asymmetric
faces are a few Polar Greenland paddles from
1890s-1910.  They are perfectly flat on one face with
a high-arch cross-section.   These perhaps should not
be considered as what we call "Greenland Paddles"
because they are recent imports to Greenland and bear
no resemblance to what any modern GP enthusiast would
consider to be a 'Greenland paddle.' "

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Modern paddlers have been trained over the past 25 years to refrain 
from any interest in Polar Arctic Inuit boats or paddles. This is the 
result of such Inuit being contaminated by polar explorer Robert 
Peary (explorations 1891~1906). 

Paddles "IMPORTED" from where by who? thereby making them 
"not real Greenland Paddles!"

Chuck Sutherland 
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