Featured! I don't own The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America. Hardly anyone in our crowd does. What floats around is a copy of a copy: a few crooked pages of hull lines, passed from shed to shed like grandma's meatball recipe. And the book…
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heritage Our source is P. Scavenius Jensen's Den grønlandske kajak og dens redskaber. It's lovely and thorough, and…
heritage Greenland has no forests, yet people built wooden-framed kayaks there for thousands of years. The wood came from Siberia, frozen into the sea ice, about five years in…
Greenland roots For millennia, seal hunters living close to the Great Ice Cap built boats to their own bodies. Every…
heritage We're talking historical figures, numbers, digits, mittens, and a count(ing) system.
heritage A throwing stick for the harpoon that doubles as a rolling tool. The hunter kept hold of it when he threw, a…
heritage The Inuit hunter's float. It sat on the kayak, tied to the harpoon line, and was supposed to go overboard after a good throw. Sometimes it got stuck and the seal pulled the kayak over. So you practised rolling with it still on. We still do.