. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Sca/e //? /Irer ^/ fa//7o/7? ,'-hj/i>r/?ai:fL/c/c^oy "Oeeary Ca//cf /37S. Old Form of Passamacjuoddy 2}^-Fathom Ocean Canoe with characteristic bottom rocker and sheer. This rather small, fast canoe for coastal hunting and fishing was common in the igth century. wales had been raised to sheer height. The gunwales were lashed with the Maleclte group lashings, each of four turns through the bark and spaced at 3 to 3)^ inches apart in the midlength and at 2 inches from the end thwarts to the headboards. Two auxiliary lashings were place
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Sca/e //? /Irer ^/ fa//7o/7? ,'-hj/i>r/?ai:fL/c/c^oy "Oeeary Ca//cf /37S. Old Form of Passamacjuoddy 2}^-Fathom Ocean Canoe with characteristic bottom rocker and sheer. This rather small, fast canoe for coastal hunting and fishing was common in the igth century. wales had been raised to sheer height. The gunwales were lashed with the Maleclte group lashings, each of four turns through the bark and spaced at 3 to 3)^ inches apart in the midlength and at 2 inches from the end thwarts to the headboards. Two auxiliary lashings were placed over the outwales and caps outboard of the gunwale ends, one about 6 inches beyond the ends of the gunwales and the other against the inboard side of the stem-piece. The end closure was accomplished by the usual spiral lashing passed through the laminated stem pieces. The latter were split (to within about 4 inches of the heel), into six or more laminae that were closely wrapped with bark cord. The headboards were bellied toward the ends to keep the bark cover under tension, and the ends outboard of the headboards were stuffed with shavings or moss. A canoe from the Penobscot River, obtained in 1826 by the Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, and described in The American Neptune for October 1948, shows that the Penobscot built their canoes on the old Malecite model. The canoe is apparently a coastal type. It has some round in the bottom amidships and V-sections toward the ends; it is 18 feet 7 inches long overall, 37}^ inches maximum beam, 15J^ inches deep amidships, and the ends stand 26 to 28 inches above the base line, the bow being slightly higher and with more rake than the stern. The rocker takes place within 4 feet of the ends, with the bottom straight for about 8 feet along the mid- length. The bilges amidship are slack, and the re- verse curve to form the tumble-home starts within 6 inches of the gunwales (see drawing, p. 72.) A much later coastal canoe of the Pass
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