. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. /*/»/<-<•//c,>2,p Carroc, // Jo/>n /f/yer- /S3d /e/7t^/h oy^rts// /9'C^' oyer ot/zftve^/ef /T'S". Malecite Racing Canoe of 1888, showing V-shaped keel piece placed between sheathing and bark to form deadrisc. ]i inch thick. The sheathing was from J4 to % inch thick and the rocker of the bottom, from 4 to 6 inches, took place within the last 4 or 5 feet of the ends. The midsection showed a well-rounded bot- tom, a slack bilge, and the high reverse to form the tumble-home seen in the old Penobscot canoe at Salem.
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. /*/»/<-<•//c,>2,p Carroc, // Jo/>n /f/yer- /S3d /e/7t^/h oy^rts// /9'C^' oyer ot/zftve^/ef /T'S". Malecite Racing Canoe of 1888, showing V-shaped keel piece placed between sheathing and bark to form deadrisc. ]i inch thick. The sheathing was from J4 to % inch thick and the rocker of the bottom, from 4 to 6 inches, took place within the last 4 or 5 feet of the ends. The midsection showed a well-rounded bot- tom, a slack bilge, and the high reverse to form the tumble-home seen in the old Penobscot canoe at Salem. These canoes were still being built well into the 1880's, if not later, and are to be seen in some old Fish Commission photographs of porpoise and seal hunting at Eastport, Maine. Seal- and por- poise-hunting canoes carried a sail, usually the spritsail of the dory. While this model probably was little changed in construction from early times, the surviving examples and models are of the period when nails were employed. The drawing on page 74 is of a small coastal hunting canoe of the same clafs, built in 1875. The reasons for the gradual decline in the building of canoes of the old style are not known, and the transition from the high-peaked ends to the more modern low and rounded ends was not sudden. It apparently began in some irland areas, particularly on the St. Lawrence and the St. John Rivers, at least as early as 1849, and the new trend in appearance finally reached the coast about 25 years later. In the period of transition, the high-peaked model developed toward the St. Francis type, or that of the modern "Indian" canvas canoe, as well as toward the low-ended type. One of the later developments took place on the St. John River, in New Brunswick, where two Indians, Jim Paul and Peter Polchies, both of St. Marys, in 1888 built for a Lt. Col. Herbert Dibble of Woodstock the racing canoe illustrated above (fig. 66). This canoe, 19 feet 6}^ inches long o
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