. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Fur-Trade Canoe Brigade, Christopherson's Hudson's Bay CIompany Post, about 1885. Christopherson in white shirt and flat cap, sitting with hands clasped. Five-fathom canoes, Ottawa River type. Lake Barriere and on Grand Victoria. These were canoe-building posts, and Christopherson had super- vised the construction of both the 5- and 4)^-fathom trade canoes. His posts had built the nearly vertical- ended nadowe chiman, the Iroquois, or Ottawa River, type of Algonkin canoe. The actual building was done by Indians, but the work was directed by
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Fur-Trade Canoe Brigade, Christopherson's Hudson's Bay CIompany Post, about 1885. Christopherson in white shirt and flat cap, sitting with hands clasped. Five-fathom canoes, Ottawa River type. Lake Barriere and on Grand Victoria. These were canoe-building posts, and Christopherson had super- vised the construction of both the 5- and 4)^-fathom trade canoes. His posts had built the nearly vertical- ended nadowe chiman, the Iroquois, or Ottawa River, type of Algonkin canoe. The actual building was done by Indians, but the work was directed by the Company men. In the building the eye and judgment of the builder were the only guides, aided by the occasional use of a measuring stick, and Christopherson made it abund- antly clear that the Company had no rules or regula- tions that he knew of, regarding the size, model, and construction of the canoes, nor any standards for decoration. The model and appearance of the canoes were determined by the preferences of the builders and the size by the needs of the posts. For example, the 5-fathom canoe had been built at the Grand Victoria post until it was decided there that a 4}^- fathom canoe would serve. The decoration, if any, was apparently according to "the custom of the ; The method of construction described by Chris- topherson seems to be largely that of the Algonkin, modified slightly by Ojibway practices. The canoes were built on a plank building bed made of 2- or 2}^-inch thick spruce; its middle was higher than the ends, as were the earthen beds used in the east, and holes were bored in it to take the stakes. A stake was placed near the end of each thwart and one between, along the sides of the canoe. The individual builders had their preferences as to the method of setting stakes; some set them vertically while others bored the bed so that the stakes stood with their heads pointed outward. A post might have two or more building beds, one for each size,
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