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David W.
Zimmerly
Dall, W.H. 1877 TRIBES OF THE EXTREME
NORTHWEST. Contributions to North
American Ethnology, Volume 1. Washington: Government Printing
Office. Inuit between Barter Island and the
Mackenzie traded narwhal skins to be used as kayak coverings, p. 10| kayak frames
traded from St. Lawrence Island to Plover Bay in Siberia, p. 15| 2-hole Aleut and Kodiak kayaks, p. 85| 3-hole kayak p. 85. Danish
National Museum 1921-33 MISCELLANEOUS ARTIFACT CATALOG
ENTRIES. Unpublished English translation (22 typescript pages),
Library, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa. Museum catalog entries include
artifacts from South Alaska, Iglulik, Caribou, Netsilik and Copper Eskimos. Full-size kayaks
and paddles included from the above places. Dikov,
N.N. 1971 ROCK ENIGMAS OF ANCIENT CHUKCHI
(PEGTYMEL' PETROGLYPHS). (Original: Naskal'nye zagadki
drevnei Chukotki (petroglify Pegtymelya).
Moscow: Nauka Publishing House).Unpublished
translation (26 typescript pages), Library, Canadian Museum of
Civilization, Ottawa. Describes petroglyphs of hunters in
kayaks spearing swimming deer and multiple paddlers in open skin boats hunting sea
mammals. Dowd,
John 1981 SEA KAYAKING: A Manual for
Long-Distance Touring. Vancouver:
Douglas & McIntyre. Focuses on long sea expeditions covering
equipment, techniques, seamanship, navigation, winds and weather, tides and currents, hazards and emergency
procedures in frigid and tropical waters, first aid,
camping, food gathering, & overall planning. Drage,
Theodore S. 1968 AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE FOR THE
DISCOVERY OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. Two volumes.(Originally published in 1748, London: Jolliffe,
Corbett and Clarke).New York: Johnson
Reprint Corp. Engraving of southern Baffin kayak,
opp. p. 27| kayak and related clothing and furnishings described, pp. 27-30| model kayak
mentioned, p. 32| umiak, pp. 32-33. Dumond,
Don E. 1974 PREHISTORIC ETHNIC BOUNDARIES ON
THE ALASKA PENINSULA. Anthropological Papers of the
University of Alaska 16(1):1-7. Kayak reference to Pinart's baidarka
trip from Unalaska to Kodiak in 1871, p. 1. Durham,
Bill 1960 CANOES AND KAYAKS OF WESTERN
AMERICA. Seattle: Copper Canoe Press.
Eskimo and Aleut kayaks and umiaks,
pp. 11-28.Refers to Alaskan boats and contains interesting, but undocumented,
statements about a Chugach Eskimo kayak with upturned ends similar to the Mackenzie Delta
type, p. 14. Dyson,
George B. 1986 BAIDARKA. With a foreward by Kenneth Brower. Edmonds, Washington: Alaska Northwest Publishing Co.
The book begins ..., with the
coming of the Russians to Alaska and their discovery of the Aleuts’ hunting skill with kayaks. It continues with George’s
re-discovery of the baidarka and his far-ranging travels with his boats. 2000 THE ALEUTIAN Kayak.
Scientific American April 2000. 84-91. A popular well-written
article. Many drawings and
photographs. Egan,
Kelly 1980 INUIT ART RE-BORN IN KAYAK. Ottawa: The Citizen, July 14, p. 24. Photos and text showing skins being
sewn to recover a National Museum of Man kayak frame. Elliott,
Henry W. 1881 THE SEAL-ISLANDS OF ALASKA. In The History and Present Condition of
the Fishery Industries. Tenth Census of the United States. Skin boats, p. 99|preparation of
skins for use on skin boats on St. Lawrence Island in 1874, p. 99| includes a glossary of
English and Russian words as well as Russian/English weights and measures| Drawing on
plate 23 shows Mahlemoot? bidarka. 1886 OUR ARCTIC PROVINCE: Alaska and the Seal Islands. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Bidarka description, p. 133| Aleut
or Kodiak paddler, p. 133| Aleut or Kodiak whale hunt, pp. 151-154|Women's use of bidarka, p.164| use of kayak on
Kuskokwim, p.411| King Island, p.427|drawings pp.119, 135, 140,
152, 156, 168, 212, 379, 426, 459. Ellis,
Alec R. and C.G. Beams 1963 HOW TO BUILD AND MANAGE A
CANOE. Two volumes. Glasgow: Brown,
Son & Ferguson, Ltd. Volume 1 contains the text and reduced
illustrations, while volume 2 consists of full-size drawings. Detailed descriptions and directions for constructing a
two-seat canvas-covered kayak built in the
European wooden stringer and canvas tradition. Eskerod,
Albert 1956 EARLY NORDIC-ARCTIC BOATS. Arctica 11:57-87. Article most concerned with the
genesis of the Nordic clinkerbuilt plankboat.Kayak and umiak references in passing. Florian,
Mary-Lou E. 1975 MATERIALS OF FABRICATION OF
KAYAKS. Unpublished manuscript in Zimmerly kayak files. Qualitative analysis of wood, skin
and plant material used in the fabrication of a number of kayaks. 1977 WOOD OF KAYAK NMM IV-E-1071. Unpublished manuscript in Zimmerly kayak files. Documents Hooper Bay, Alaska kayak
frame as being made from spruce (Picea sp.). Freeman,
Milton M.R. 1964 OBSERVATIONS ON THE KAYAK-COMPLEX,
BELCHER ISLANDS, N.W.T. In Bulletin 194, pp. 56-91. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of
Civilization. Describes the use, manufacture and
ownership of kayaks in the Belcher Islands between 1959 and 1961. Fritsch,
K.A. 1973 THE RESTORATION AND CONSERVATION OF
A THREE-SEATED KAJAK FROM THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS IN THE WORKSHOPS OF THE UBERSEE-MUSEUM, BREMEN GERMANY. 10 photos, 12 pp.Paper presented at a
professional meeting ? in 1973. The kayak is actually Pacific
Eskimo and not Aleut as stated. See
Svend Anderson, 1969-70, for provenience of this
kayak as the two articles talk about the same kayak. 1968 THE AMMASSALIMIUT KAYAK AND ITS
DEMOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION. (Original: Le Kayak Des Ammassalimiut:
Evolution Technique. Objets et Mondes
8(4):247-264). Unpublished English translation (14 typescript
pages), Library, Canadian Museum of Civilization,
Ottawa. This article and the two that
follow it trace the evolution of the changing form and distribution of the Ammassalik
(East Greenland) kayak from 1884 to 1966.
Many drawings and photographs show the
construction techniques in detail. Gessain,
Robert and P.E. Victor 1969a THE AMMASSALIMIUT KAYAK AND ITS
TECHNICAL EVOLUTION. (Original: Le Kayak Des Ammassalimiut: Evolution
Technique. Objets et Mondes 9(2):145-166). Unpublished English translation (22
typescript pages), Library, Canadian Museum of Civilization,
Ottawa. See Gessain, 1968.
Gessain,
Robert and P.E. Victor
1969b THE AMMASSALIMIUT KAYAK AND ITS
TECHNICAL EVOLUTION. (Original: Le
Kayak Des Ammassalimiut: Evolution
Technique. Objets et Mondes
9(3):225-244). Unpublished English translation (20
typescript pages), Library,
Canadian Museum of Civilization,
Ottawa. Giddings,
J.L. 1952 THE ARCTIC WOODLAND CULTURE OF THE
KOBUK RIVER. Museum monographs 9. Philadelphia: The University Museum, University
of Pennsylvania. Describes a river canoe/kayak which
has a kayak-type framework, but is only partially decked, p. 59| photo of two river
kayaks lashed together, p. 60. Gilberg,
Rolf 1974/75 CHANGES IN THE LIFE OF THE POLAR
ESKIMOS RESULTING FROM A CANADIAN IMMIGRATION INTO THE THULE
DISTRICT, NORTH GREENLAND. Folk (16-17):159-170.. Discusses the reintroduction of the
kayak to the Polar Eskimos by the Canadian Eskimos as well as the reasons for the demise of the kayak in the first
place. Green,
Paul 1959 I AM ESKIMO, AKNIK MY NAME. Juneau: Alaska Northwest Publishing
Co. Drawing of Bering Strait style
kayak on p. 28| description of kayak making (North Alaska, Kivalina style) on pp. 24, 25|
minor notes throughout. Guemple, D.L. 1967 THE PACALIK KAYAK OF THE BELCHER
ISLANDS. In Contributions to Ethnology, V. Bulletin 204:124-163.Ottawa: Canadian
Museum of Civilization. Details the construction of a two-hole
Belcher Island kayak, a type apparently unknown before the 1940s. Guillemard,
F.H.H. 1886 THE CRUISE OF THE MARCHESA TO
KAMSCHATKA & NEW GUINEA. In two volumes. London: John Murray. Description of Kodiak-style
three-hole kayak found in village of sea-otter hunters on an island off the southeast coast of
Kamchatka, pp. 224-226. Drawing of bifid bow of Kurile canoe, p. 228.Three-hole kayak
drawing, p. 226. Gussow,
Zachary 1963 A PRELIMINARY REPORT OF KAYAK-ANGST
AMONG THE ESKIMO OF WEST GREENLAND: A Study in Sensory
Deprivation. Analysis of 13 cases of kayak-angst
as collected in 1905 by Bertelsen.
Calm sea conditions demanding minimal body
movements develop a lowering in the level of consciousness.Psychophysiological disequilibrium
follows exacerbated by cultural factors. Haberland,
Wolfgang 1975 DAS GABEN SIE UNS: Indianer und
Eskimo als Erfinder und Entdecker. Hamburgisches Museum fur Volkerkunde.Wegweiser
zur Volkerkunde Heft 17. Hamburg: Im Selbstverlag. Plate six illustrates an Eastern
Arctic-type kayak 624 cm long with a flat coaming.Said to be dated 1880 and from the Bering Strait area. Hawkes,
E.W. 1916 THE LABRADOR
ESKIMO. Anthropological Series No. 14.Memoir 91,
Geological Survey, Department of Mines. Ottawa: Government Printing
Bureau. The kayak, pp. 71-79. Healy,
M.A. 1887 REPORT OF THE CRUISE OF THE REVENUE
MARINE STEAMER CORWIN IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN IN THE YEAR
1885. Washington: Government Printing
Office. Engravings from photos show King
Island type kayak (between pages 14 & 15), a three-holed bidarka and some umiaks
(between pages 58 & 59). 1889 REPORT OF THE CRUISE OF THE REVENUE MARINE STEAMER CORWIN
IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN IN THE YEAR
1884. Washington: Government Printing
Office. Upper Kowak, kayaks and Canoes, pp.
84-85.Kayak photos opp. pp. 82 & 84 - Norton Sound type. Hearne,
Samuel 1971 A JOURNEY FROM PRINCE OF WALES'S
FORT IN HUDSON'S BAY TO THE NORTHERN OCEAN. Reprint of 1795 edition. Edmonton: M.G.
Hurtig Ltd. P. 167, brief paragraph on the
kayak of the Eskimos along the Coppermine River. Heath,
John D. 1961 THE KAYAK OF THE ESKIMO. American White Water 7(2):3-11. General description of kayak construction
as well as delineation of various kayak types and their characteristics.Other
brief discussion of paddles and paddling and rescue techniques. 1968 THE KING ISLAND ROLL. American White Water 13(4):11. Drawing and caption explain how the
roll was performed with a single paddle. 1968 THE WORLD'S (ONETIME) BEST: Eskimo Kayakers of King
Island. American White Water 13(4):7-12. Description of the construction and
use of the King Island type kayak including a single-bladed paddle roll technique
for recovery from a capsize. 1969 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF KAYAKS. Unpublished manuscript No. 1084.1 (23 typescript pages). Archives, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa. (IV-X-18M). Description of Arctic kayaks from
Greenland to Siberia comparing features of form and construction. 1972 THE KING ISLAND KAYAK.
Unpublished manuscript No. 1084.2 (35 typescript pages of text, 54 pages of photos
with captions). Archives, Canadian
Museum of A field and museum specimen study
of the traditional King Island kayak detailing construction and use. 1977 SOME COMPARATIVE NOTES ON KAYAK
FORM AND CONSTRUCTION. In Contextual Studies of Material
Culture. David W. Zimmerly, ed. Pp.
19-26, Paper No. 43, Canadian Ethnology Service,
Mercury Series. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization. Kayaks from North and East of
Seward Peninsula are compared with those to the south with the similarities and
differences related to various theories of Eskimo migration and contact. [Full-text PDF – 8 pages] Heizer,
Robert F. 1945 INTRODUCED SPEAR THROWERS IN
CALIFORNIA. The Masterkey 19(4):109-112. Mentions Aleut kayaks and people brought
down to engage in sea otter hunting off the California coast. 1960 THE ALEUT SEA OTTER HUNT IN THE LATE NINETEENTH
CENTURY. Anthropological Papers of the
University of Alaska 8(2):131-135. Short description of two-hole
baidarkas and their use in the sea otter hunt. Henderson,
J.Lewis 1951 KAYAK TO CAPE WRATH. (Original: Ethnographische Skizzen uber
die Volker des Russischen Amerika.Acta
Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae, v. 4, 1856| v. 7, 1863). Alaska Division of State
Libraries. Koniag Eskimo: kamleika, p. 366|
baidarka headdress, p. 368| blue paint, p. 368| skin boats, pp. 379-380| whale hunting, pp.
387-392| sea otter hunt, pp. 392-395| seal hunt, pp. 395-397| burial with baidarka, pp.
402-403| training age, p. 411. Holtved,
Erik 1944 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN
THE THULE DISTRICT. Meddelelser om Gronland 141(1). Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzels Forlag. Archaeological kayak parts, pp.
230-233| model kayaks and umiaks, p. 284| above items pictured in plates 17, 42 and 49. 1962 OTTO FABRICIUS' ETHNOGRAPHICAL WORKS. Meddelelser om Gronland 140(2).Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzels
Forlag. Excellent descriptions of Greenland
kayak seal hunting equipment and its use, pp. 28-66.Drawing of Greenland kayak
(reproduced from D. Crantz: Historie von Gronland, vo. 1, Pl. 7, p. 198 -- 2nd ed.Barby 1770), p. 29. 1967 CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLAR ESKIMO ETHNOGRAPHY. Meddelelser om Gronland 182(2):1-180. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzels Forlag. Drawings, discussion and Eskimo
terms for kayaks and kayaking, pp. 74-95. Hooper,
C.L. 1881 REPORT OF THE CRUISE OF THE U.S.
REVENUE-STEAMER CORWIN. Washington: Government Printing
Office. Nunivak kayak, p. 6.King Island kayak,
p. 15.Kotzebue Sound kayak, p. 25.Kayak racing, p. 26.Umiak pp. 28-29.Beluga whale
hunt, p. 59. Hornell,
James 1946 WATER TRANSPORT: Origins &
Early Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Reprinted 1970, Newton Abbot: David &
Charles. The Skin Boats of the Eskimos and
other Arctic Peoples, pp. 155-175.The Origins of Skin Boats, pp. 175-180, argues that
kayaks evolved from pointed bark canoes and umiaks from Tibetan-type of skin-covered
coracles. Hrdlicka,
Ales 1944 THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF KODIAK
ISLAND. Philadelphia: The Wistar
Institute of Anatomy and Biology. Boats, pp. 60-62.Accounts of Koniag
boats given by early explorers.Includes kayaks (bidarki) and umiaks. 1945 THE ALEUTIAN AND COMMANDER ISLANDS AND THEIR INHABITANTS. Philadelphia: The Wistar Institute
of Anatomy and Biology. Good survey of the literature
section on boats, pp. 119-127, weapons, pp.127-133. Hutchinson,
Derek 1976 SEA CANOEING. LONDON: A & C Black. Complete instructional book on coastal
and ocean kayak paddling in modern craft. No. of
publications: 242
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