. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. CATALOGUE OF THE WATEECRAFT COLLECTION. 223 fastened together with logs secured by wooden tree nails. The raft is fitted with a rude platform and seats, and arched over with a mat roof: also with an elevated seat for the steersman. Dim^ensions of jangada.—Length, 17 feet 3 inches; width, 5 feet 3 inches; mast, 13 feet 1^ inches; boom, 10 feet 6 inches. Scale of model, two-thirds inch equals 1 foot. Collected by S. D. Trenchard. Cat. No. 15,139 Model of British Guiana dugout canoe. This is a peculiar type of dugout '' piragua,"
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. CATALOGUE OF THE WATEECRAFT COLLECTION. 223 fastened together with logs secured by wooden tree nails. The raft is fitted with a rude platform and seats, and arched over with a mat roof: also with an elevated seat for the steersman. Dim^ensions of jangada.—Length, 17 feet 3 inches; width, 5 feet 3 inches; mast, 13 feet 1^ inches; boom, 10 feet 6 inches. Scale of model, two-thirds inch equals 1 foot. Collected by S. D. Trenchard. Cat. No. 15,139 Model of British Guiana dugout canoe. This is a peculiar type of dugout '' piragua," or canoe, used by the Caribs of British Guiana. A section of a tree is hollowed out thin and the sides spread apart by seven crossbeams resting upon and lashed to each gunwale; the excavation is continued the entire length, leaving the ends open. These are filled by V-shaped cross sections fitted into the ends and pitched to make the seams tight. These square ends extend some distance above the Fn;. r,s.—British guiana dugout caxoe. Dimensions of canoe.—Length, 18 feet 10 inches; beam,-3 feet 8 inches; depth, 18 inches; paddles. 6 feet 5 inches. Scale of model. 1:^ inches equal 1 foot. Gift of Eev. J. Cullen. Cat. Xo. 4,339 Model of Fuegian canoe. This is a type of canoe used by the native Indians in the Strait of Magellan. It is made of coarse bark sewed together with wh'ale- bone and fastened to an inner frame. The frame consists of a rather slim rounded gunwale, on each side, to which are secured splints made bj' splitting saplings or branches of trees, which are bent round in a bow shape, as required, to give the proper shape to the boat. The gunwales are supported and kept in proper position by five cross bars, which are lashed to it with whalebone and serve the pur- .pose of thwarts. The covering, or skin of the boat, is fastened to the gunwales with whalebone. The canoe has a round bottom, flar- ing sides, and a very strong camber, both ends bei
Size: 3035px × 823px
Photo credit: © Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorun, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectscience
