. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. •Ite P/an^-oo^v^ge //r/77f Hybrid Algonkin Canoes: Eastern 2;i-falhom (above) and northeastern 2-fathom adaptation, with sketches of stems used in each. bark cover turned up along the sides, the stakes were again driven in their holes. The cover was then pieced out with side panels as necessary and gored, and longitudinal strips of wood were set in place by means of the clamp pieces, about as in Malecite construction. The gunwales were then placed on the posts, which had been set to the required sheer, and the bark trimmed and fitted to them
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. •Ite P/an^-oo^v^ge //r/77f Hybrid Algonkin Canoes: Eastern 2;i-falhom (above) and northeastern 2-fathom adaptation, with sketches of stems used in each. bark cover turned up along the sides, the stakes were again driven in their holes. The cover was then pieced out with side panels as necessary and gored, and longitudinal strips of wood were set in place by means of the clamp pieces, about as in Malecite construction. The gunwales were then placed on the posts, which had been set to the required sheer, and the bark trimmed and fitted to them. The old method was to lash the bark to the main gun- wale members and to peg on the outwales at in- tervals of about a foot. In earlier times most build- ers inserted along the gunwales an extra reinforcing strip of bark extending a little below the outwales, as in the St. Francis canoes, but in the nailed-and- tacked bark canoes built during the decadent period this was sometimes omitted. Mortises for the thwarts \\ere next cut and the middle thwart was forced into place, after the spall there had been removed. This required that the gunwales be spread slightly, thus increasing the amount of sheer somewhat. Much judgment was needed to do this correctly. The increase in the sheer lifted the ends slightly and put some rocker in the bottom toward the ends. The building frame was lifted out before the rest of the thwarts were placed; usually it was taken apart in the process. In forming the ends of the bark cover, the two sides were held together by a clothespin-like device made of two short, fiat sticks lashed together. Increasing the beam at the gunwales by fitting the thwarts after the bark cover had been secured to the gunwales not only increased the sheer but de- creased the depth of the canoe amidships as established by the posts placed under the gunwales in setting up. In order to retain the required sheer and the desired depth of side, the gunwales had been sheered up
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