. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Third Stage of Canoe Construction: the bark cover is shaped on the building bed. The gores have been cut; part ol' 'he cover is shaped and secured by stakes and battens. "A" shows battens secured by sticks lashed to stakes. {Sketch by Adney.) long stitch to the next group. In some elm and other bark canoes employing basswood or cedar-bark lashings the bark was tied with a single turn at wide intervals; when roots were used in these, however, small groupings of stitches were customary. When group lashings were used with birch bark,
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Third Stage of Canoe Construction: the bark cover is shaped on the building bed. The gores have been cut; part ol' 'he cover is shaped and secured by stakes and battens. "A" shows battens secured by sticks lashed to stakes. {Sketch by Adney.) long stitch to the next group. In some elm and other bark canoes employing basswood or cedar-bark lashings the bark was tied with a single turn at wide intervals; when roots were used in these, however, small groupings of stitches were customary. When group lashings were used with birch bark, the inter- vals between groups was usually relatively short, though in a few canoes the groups and intervals were of nearly equal length. In an independent group, the ends of the strand were treated as in whipping, the tail being under the first turns made and the end tucked back under the last^usually on the inside of the gunwales. Where there were inner and outer gunwales the lashing was always around both, and the tail might be jammed between them. If a cap was used on the gunwales, the lashings were always under it. The use of a knotted turn to start a lashing occurred only in the old Tetes de Boule canoes. On the Malecite canoe, the sides are pieced out in one to three panels rather than in one long, narrow panel on each side. The panel for the midlength requires the greatest strength and is usually lapped inside the bottom bark. The latter is first trimmed straight along its edge, and the panel inserted behind it with a couple of inches of lap. Then the two pieces of bark are sewn together over a halved-root batten with an over-and-over stitch. (Other tribes used some form of the harness stitch, or a similar style, allowing great strength.) The middle panel does not extend much beyond the ends of the first pair of thwarts on each side of the middle. The next panels toward the ends are lapped outside the bottom bark and are sewn with the back-stitch. Then, if still another
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