. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. /" fafhom 7f/eJ c^f Bou/f I /^c/n/erj Canoe- lrr?^//7 oyfra// // -iS, I Oi'f/-^vniva/irs /O'/" " Seam ^^'' , \ //7//e^r gurava/fs ^7'. Tetes de Boule Hunting Canoe, 2-Fathom, with wide bottom, showing structural details. and the bark cover, coming home in the bevel of the lower outboard edge of the main gunwales be- tween the group lashings of the bark cover as in the Malecite canoes. The ribs were not prebent but were placed in the canoe when green, treated with hot water, and then allowed to dry into place. In pre- paring th
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. /" fafhom 7f/eJ c^f Bou/f I /^c/n/erj Canoe- lrr?^//7 oyfra// // -iS, I Oi'f/-^vniva/irs /O'/" " Seam ^^'' , \ //7//e^r gurava/fs ^7'. Tetes de Boule Hunting Canoe, 2-Fathom, with wide bottom, showing structural details. and the bark cover, coming home in the bevel of the lower outboard edge of the main gunwales be- tween the group lashings of the bark cover as in the Malecite canoes. The ribs were not prebent but were placed in the canoe when green, treated with hot water, and then allowed to dry into place. In pre- paring the rib, it was first bent over the knee. It was the custom of some builders to place under the build- ing frame the ribs that were to go near the ends of the canoe, and to mark the point where they would be bent. Sometimes the endmost ribs that were to be "broken" at the centerline to form the V-section were split edgewise. A piece of the inner lamina was then cut out to one side of the center so that the inner laminae would lie flat against each other, and to prevent the inner half from buckling the rib was wrapped with a thong to one side of the "; It does not appear to have been the common prac- tice of the Tetes de Boule to decorate their small canoes, though when building for white men they would decorate if the buyer requested it. The paddles used by the Tetes de Boule were some- what like those of the eastern Cree but the blade was slightly wider near the tip than near the handle. The top grip was formed wide and thin, the taper from the lower grip to the upper one often l^eing very long. The paddles were usually of white birch, but maple was used in a few of the examples examined. The gunwales, outwales, and caps of the Tetes de Boule canoes were usually of spruce; the ribs and stem pieces, white cedar; the thwarts, white birch; the headboards, white cedar in all but one of the canoes inspected (in this, birch had been used). Jack pine was used
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