. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Algonkin Canoe, Old Type. as in the drawing (p. 116). In the wabinaki chimuri, however, the gunwales and other members, as a rule, all followed the sheer of the ends of the canoe. The Algonkins used inside stem-pieces in both models, but the stem-piece of the old high-ended canoe was quite different from that of the wabinaki chiman, for it was built to give a profile in which the top of the high stem ended in a line straight across to the sheer. The piece consisted of a crooked stick, without lamination, worked out of a thin board, % to Yi i
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Algonkin Canoe, Old Type. as in the drawing (p. 116). In the wabinaki chimuri, however, the gunwales and other members, as a rule, all followed the sheer of the ends of the canoe. The Algonkins used inside stem-pieces in both models, but the stem-piece of the old high-ended canoe was quite different from that of the wabinaki chiman, for it was built to give a profile in which the top of the high stem ended in a line straight across to the sheer. The piece consisted of a crooked stick, without lamination, worked out of a thin board, % to Yi inch thick. It was shaped to the desired profile inside and out, and was slightly sharpened, or some- times rabbeted and sharpened, toward the outboard face. The headboard was mounted on this stem- piece by means of the usual notch but was not bellied; instead it stood approximately vertical and a short strut was tenoned into both the headboard and the inside face of the stem at a point about half the height of the stem. Sometimes two struts were , side by side, with the outboard ends lashed at the sides of the stem. Thus the stem-pieces and head- boards were placed as a single unit, not independently as in eastern canoes. The gunwale ends were lashed to the sides of the stem-piece, between the strut and the stem-head, at a height determined by the sheering of the main gunwale members. The outwales and caps did not touch the stem-piece, ending with a nearly vertical upward sweep, a few inches inboard. The ends of the outwales and caps were always higher than the top of the stem-piece so that, when the canoe was turned upside down, the bark cover over the stem- head was kept off the ground and thus preserved from damage. The top of the stem-piece was held rigid not only by the strut to the headboard but also by the ends of the main gunwale members lashed to it a little higher up. The headboard was in the form of a rounded V that was widest at midheight, at the gunwales, whic
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