edwin tappan adney (1868-1950) and howard chapelle wrote
the bark canoes and skin boats of north america (museums of history and technology, bulletin 230, washington, d.c., smithsonian institution, 1964).
adney and chapelle's book contains a sketch of a
"fathom freight canoe from lake timagami, apparently a hybrid based on canvas canoes . . . . overall length 18'6." also shown is an ojibway paddle made of maple, without a ridge.
thanks to
jim wheaton for this photograph of an ojibway rice harvest canoe, carved by adney. wheaton is writing a bibliography of adney. i'd love to know if adney carved a similar model of the temagami canoe. apparently he carved over 100 1/5 scale model canoes, which are housed at the
mariners' museum, newport news, virginia. maybe i should have a wild temagami correspondent go to check.
edwin tappan adney (1868-1950) and howard chapelle wrote the bark canoes and skin boats of north america (museums of history and technology, bulletin 230, washington, d.c., smithsonian institution, 1964).
adney and chapelle's book contains a sketch of a "fathom freight canoe from lake timagami, apparently a hybrid based on canvas canoes . . . . overall length 18'6." also shown is an ojibway paddle made of maple, without a ridge.
thanks to jim wheaton for this photograph of an ojibway rice harvest canoe, carved by adney. wheaton is writing a bibliography of adney. i'd love to know if adney carved a similar model of the temagami canoe. apparently he carved over 100 1/5 scale model canoes, which are housed at the mariners' museum, newport news, virginia. maybe i should have a wild temagami correspondent go to check.
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I believe Adney built the 1/5 scale models from the same materials that full sized canoes were built from. He did not carve them.
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