Birchbark Canoe Building

thanks for sharing

-- San Diego, CA

thank´s for sharing this very interressting episode :-)

I have seen how a Danish was teaching people how to build
the seagoing greenland hunting Kayak the original way they are build to fit the person who build it
becourse they use the different bodyparts to meassurre with
he is also teaching this tecnic in Greenland to the local people as well

take care
Dennis

I’ve always wondered at the toughness of a birch bark canoe.

They used spruce gum to seal ‘em. The native Americans must have been covered in the stuff all the bloody time.

Ever read mary rowlandson’s account of being abducted for ransom by Indians?
Quite the read.

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We have a local man here in Greenville NH who spent a few years with the Inuit Indians of Hudson Bay Ca. He learned their life styles and ways, but most of all, he learned their method of building these birch bark canoes. He’s been doing that for a living and is now working on his last commissioned canoe before he retires. I believe this last one is being built for the Louvre of Paris France. He is also well known for his work and once he retires, he plans on gathering up all his recordings and films and put together a documentary. He did tell me of the Mn gent – if they don’t know each other, they know of each other.

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Thanks Wayne.

Watched the whole thing. Amazing how those materials come together.

Paul

Wow, that’s amazing.

Dennis, if you have the site where you found that information let me know. I had it once but lost it. I know the human dimensions are 3x a person’s reach (or hight) for the length. The width I think is the width of their hips + 2 fists or fistmeles (fist being the closed hand without the thumb extended and fistmele being the fist with the thumb extended) which one I cannot remember. And the deck hight it the foot + ???. Then there was a dimension for a comfortable leg position which I don’t remember at all. Hey if anyone knows where this info is let me know.
MIKE

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Mike … I am sorry I don´t know if he has a site
soince it was on a school for adults something we call highschool …. deffently not the same as
you call highschool over in the states … but it was where I meet my wife back in 1998
we both took a photo class and stayd there a half year
and there was this corse over a week we could follow 8 people build there own Kayak
very interresting to follow the build wish I had time to take a week of to make one

Dennis