. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. J /b//,am ffo6rjUo or ymo// '/Vor/h ranoe Or/if^ 13' '. Small 3-Fathom North Canoe of the Tetes de Boule model. Built in the igth century for fast travel, this Hudson's Bay Company canoe was also called nadowe chiman, or Iroquois canoe. In model, all the fur-trade canoes had narrow bottoms, flaring topsides, and sharp ends. The flaring sides were rather straight in section and the bottom nearly flat athwartships. The bottom had a moderate rocker very close to the ends. In nearly all of these canoes, the main gunwales were sheered up only sli
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. J /b//,am ffo6rjUo or ymo// '/Vor/h ranoe Or/if^ 13' '. Small 3-Fathom North Canoe of the Tetes de Boule model. Built in the igth century for fast travel, this Hudson's Bay Company canoe was also called nadowe chiman, or Iroquois canoe. In model, all the fur-trade canoes had narrow bottoms, flaring topsides, and sharp ends. The flaring sides were rather straight in section and the bottom nearly flat athwartships. The bottom had a moderate rocker very close to the ends. In nearly all of these canoes, the main gunwales were sheered up only slightly at the ends and were secured to the sides of the inner stem-piece; the outwales and caps, however, were strongly sheered up to the top of the stem. The curvature and form of the ends, in later years at least, varied with the place of building. After the English took control of Canada and the fur trade, a large number of Iroquois removed into Quebec and were employed by the English fur traders as canoemen and as canoe builders. Though the aboriginal Iroquois were not birch-bark canoe builders, they apparently became so after they reached Canada, for the fur-trade canoes built on the Ottawa River and tributaries by the Algonkins and their neighbors became known after 1820 as nadowe chiman or adowe chiman, names which mean Iroquois canoe. These "Iroquois canoes," however, were not a standard form. Those built by the Algonkin had relatively upright stem profiles, giving them a rather long bottom, and the outwales and caps stood almost vertical at the stem-heads; in contrast, the "Iroquois canoes" built by the Tetes de Boule had a propor- tionally shorter bottom than those of the Algonkin, because the end profiles were cut under more at the forefoot. Also, the outwales and caps of the Tetes de Boule canoes were not sheered quite as much as were those of the Algonkin. It is supposed that the Tetes de Boule were taught to build this model by Iroquois, who had
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