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Annotated Bibliography of Arctic Kayaks

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Kayak Bibliography                                                                   David W. Zimmerly

 

 


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Taylor, J. Garth

       1974        LABRADOR ESKIMO SETTLEMENTS OF THE EARLY CONTACT PERIOD. 

                      Publications in Ethnology, No.9.  Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization. 

                      Mentions size of kayaks, use by young boys, rafting of two or more and speed, pp.39-40.

       1974        NETSILIK ESKIMO MATERIAL CULTURE:The Roald Amundsen Collection from

                      King William.  Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.  

                      Kayaks and paddles, pp.110-121.

  Taylor, Kenneth I.

       1961        THE CONSTRUCTION AND USE OF KAYAKS IN NORTH-WEST GREENLAND:

                      Preliminary Report.  The Polar Record 10(68):494-500. 

                      Describes kayak rolling, hunting by kayak and kayak construction in a general manner.

       1962        A GREENLAND SUMMER.  American White Water Spring:18-24. 

                      Letter from Taylor to John Heath describing his summer field trip in Greenland with special

                      emphasis on kayaking.

       1962        ESKIMO-ALEUT KAYAK TYPES.  Unpublished ms. (64 typescript pages),

                      Archives, CANES, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa. 

                      An econo-ecological study of kayak distribution and types.  A thoughtful study written as a

                       paper in graduate school.

  Taylor, Kenneth I. and William S. Laughlin

       1963        SUB-ARCTIC KAYAK COMMITMENT AND "KAYAK FEAR"  Paper presented at the

                       62nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San

                      Francisco.  In Zimmerly kayak file, 15 pp. 

                      After a review of the literature on this question of kayak angst, the authors hypothesize a

                      hereditary component to the disease.

  Thalbitzer, William

       1913        GRONLANDSKE SAGN OM ESKIMOERNES FOR TID.  In Danish.  Stockholm:

                      Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag. 

                      Several photos of kayaks and umiaks, figs 1, 4, 5, 7 & 9.

       1929        ESKIMO LEGENDS AND SONGS OF GREENLAND.  (Original: Legendes et

                      Chants Esquimaux du Groenland.  Ouvrage Traduit du Danois par Mme

                      Hollatz-Bretagne.Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux).  English translation of pp.9-42

                      (22 typescript pages), Library, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa. 

                      Songs of the Kayak (Ammassalik) translation page numbers, 16-22.

  Thornton, Harrison R.

       1931        AMONG THE ESKIMOS OF WALES, ALASKA 1890-93.  Edited and annotated by

                      Neda S. and William M. Thornton.  Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. 

                      Cape Prince of Wales - Chapter 36, Kayaks, pp.127-129.  Photo of two kayaks opposite

                      p.128.

  Trebitsch, Rudolf

       1912        SKIN BOATS AND SKIN FLOATS AND THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION

                      IN THE PAST AND IN THE PRESENT.  (Original:Fellboote und Schwimmsacke

                      und ihre geographische Verbreitung in der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart.Archiv

                       fur Anthropologie 11:161-184).  English translation of pp.180-84 (11 typescript

                      pages), Library, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa. 

                      Definitions of kayak and umiak| distribution of skin boats in North America.

  Turner, Christy G. and Jacqueline A. Turner

       1974        PROGRESS REPORT ON EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF

                      AKUN STRAIT DISTRICT, EASTERN ALEUTIANS, ALASKA, 1970-71. 

                      Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska 16(1):27-57. 

                      Mentions use of skin boats in 1925 and an informant, Willy Tcheripanoff, who could still

                      remember details of construction in 1970-71, p.35.

  Turner, Lucien M.

       1894        ETHNOLOGY OF THE UNGAVA DISTRICT.  Eleventh Annual Report of the

                      Bureau of Ethnology, pp. 167-350.  Washington: Government Printing Office. 

                      Kayak, pp.237-240; umiak, pp.235-237.

                      (PFD - full text: Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions)

  Tyrell, J.W.

       1898        ACROSS THE SUB-ARCTICS OF CANADA.  Facsimile edition published by

                      Coles Publishing Company, Toronto, 1973.London: T. Fisher Unwin. 

                      Kayak related references on pp.104, 112, 118, 120, 141-142, 170.

                      (PFD - full text: Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions)

       1975        ESKIMOS OF THE KAZAN.  (1894).  The Beaver.  Outfit 305:4, pp.40-46. 

                      Several photos of Caribou Eskimo in kayaks with some descriptions from Tyrell's notes.

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United States

       1890        REPORT ON POPULATION AND RESOURCES OF ALASKA at the Eleventh

                      Census: 1890.  Department of the Interior, Census Office. 

                      Washington: Government Printing Office.

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Van de Velde, Father F., o.m.i.

       1970        CANADIAN ESKIMO ARTIFACTS.  Ottawa: Canadian Arctic Producers.  No

                      pagination. 

                      Four pages on the Netsilik kayak.

  Vanstone, James W., editor

       1973        V.S. KHROMCHENKO'S COASTAL EXPLORATIONS IN SOUTHWESTERN

                      ALASKA, 1822.  Translated by David H. Kraus.  Fieldiana: Anthropoogy, Volume

                      64.  Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. 

                      Numerous references to kayaks and their use including kayak rolling on northern Norton

                      Sound near Golovnin Bay, pp.50, 54, 58, 61, 72, 84, 87.

       1977        A.F. KASHEVAROV'S COASTAL EXPLORATIONS IN NORTHWEST ALASKA,

                      1838.  Translated by David H. Kraus.  Fieldiana: Anthropology, Volume 69. 

                      Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. 

                      A few references to the types and uses of kayaks and skin boats in the area between

                      Cape Lisburne and near Point Barrow.

  Vdovin, I.S.

       1973        STUDIES IN THE ETHNIC HISTORY OF THE KORYAKS.  (Original: Ocherki

                      Etnicheskoi Istorii Koryakov.Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Institut Etnografi. 

                      Leningrad: Nauka Press).  Umpublished English translation (13 typescript

                      pages), library, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa. 

                      Pp.2-4, kayaks and umiak type boats described.  Voznesenskii's description of a kayak is

                      quoted.

  Veniaminov, Ivan Evsieevich Popov

       1840        NOTES ON THE ISLANDS OF THE UNALASKA DISTRICT.  St. Petersburg:

                      Russian-American Company. 

                      This is the standard work on the Aleut by a Russian priest assigned to the Unalaska

                      district of the Aleutian Islands.It is an extremely comprehensive work and covers almost all

                       aspects of Aleut culture.  Baidarki, pp.219-228.

  Volkov, F.K. and S.I. Rudenko

       1910        ETHNOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS FROM THE FORMER RUSSIAN-AMERICAN

                      POSSESSIONS.  (Original:Etnograficheskie Kollektsii iz Byvshikh

                      Rossiisko-Amerikanskikh Vladenii. In, Materialy po etnografii Rosii, Tom I. St.

                      Petersburg:Ethnographic Department, Emp. Alexander III Russian

                      Museum.Unpublished English translation (17 typescript pages), Library,

                      Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa. 

                      Descriptions and photos of four model baidarkas (Pacific Eskimo and Aleut) and paddles.

  von Langsdorff, G.H.

       1814        VOYAGES AND TRAVELS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD DURING THE

                      YEARS 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806 AND1807.  In two volumes.  London: Henry

                      Colburn.  

                      Volume II: Aleut 30-51, Kodiak 52-80, Koryak 317-327.  Aleut one-hole and Kodiak

                      three-hole frame drawings in vol. II of plates accompanying 1812 German edition.

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Wainwright, Ian N.M., J.H.A. Grant and T.G. Stone

       1975        RADIOGRAPHY OF MACKENZIE DELTA KAYAK NMM IV-D-2039.  Unpublished

                      memorandum, polaroid X-rays, B&W photos and diagrams showing positioning

                      of kayak for radiography.  In Zimmerly kayak file. 

                      Shows construction of end horns and keelson scarf joints.

  Wallace, W.S., editor

       1932        JOHN McLEAN'S SERVICE IN THE HUDSON'S BAY TERRITORY (1849). 

                      Toronto: The Champlain Society. 

                      The Caiak, or Canoe, pp.277-278.

  Waugh, Frank W.

       1919        CANADIAN ABORIGINAL CANOES.  The Canadian Field-Naturalist 33(2):23-33. 

                      Short popular article with drawings of canoes, kayaks and paddles.

  Waxell, Sven

       1952        THE AMERICAN EXPEDITION.  Translated from Johan Skalberg's Danish

                      verison "Vitus Berings Eventrylige opdagerfaerd 1733-1743" by M. A. Michael. 

                      London: William Hodge and Company, Limited. 

                      Waxell's description of the meeting with the "Americans", (Aleut), pp. 113-119; kayak

                      description on p. 117; kayak drawing on foldout opposite p. 172.

  Whitaker, Ian

       1954        THE SCOTTISH KAYAKS AND THE "FINN-MEN".  Antiquity (110):99-105. 

                      Good review of the ""FINN-MEN" literature.

  Wilkinson, Doug

       1909        KAYAKS ON KOLUCTOO BAY.  Field and Stream 58:30-33, 94-95.  August. 

                      Hunting narwhals by kayak off northern Baffin Island.

  Wissler, Clark

       1909        NOTES CONCERNING NEW COLLECTIONS.  Anthropological Papers of the

                      American Museum of Natural History 2(3):307-364. 

                      Drawings and text on kayaks from Greenland and Pond's Bay (Pond Inlet), pp.318-321.

  Worster, W. and Knud Rasmussen

       1921        ESKIMO FOLK-TALES.  Copenhagen: Gyldendal. 

                      Kayak stories including the story of the troll in a half kayak who upsets all he meets.

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Zimmerly, David W.

         1975       FIELD NOTES ON KAYAKS.  (IV-X-93M), kayak catalogue sheet and

                       kayak photo catalogue. Notes collected   during field trip to Leningrad, Oct.

                      1975.  59 pp. Photocopy.

                      Besides a glossary, this also contains line drawings and full description of a Mackenzie

                      Delta kayak.

1976        AN ILLUSTRATED GLOSSARY OF KAYAK TERMINOLOGY.  Canadian Museums

                       Association Gazette 9(2):27-37. 

                      Besides a glossary, this also contains line drawings and full description of a Mackenzie

                      Delta kayak.  [PDF: full-text, photos & drawings  13 pages] 

       1976        KAYAKS: Their Design and Use.  In Wooden Shipbuilding & Small Craft

                      Preservation.  Pp. 71-74.  Washington: The Preservation Press, National Trust

                      for Historic Press.  

                      General discussion of kayaks and current research on them plus a table giving average

                      kayak measurements of length, beam and depth for all types.

       1977        SOME TRADITIONAL AND MODERN ROLES OF THE KAYAK IN HOOPER BAY,

                      ALASKA.  Paper presented at 3rd Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological

                      Association, April 8, 9, 1977, Fairbanks, Alaska.  11 pp.  (IV-E-16M).

                      Describes traditional kayak use in Yukon/Kuskokwin Delta area and the manufacture and

                      use of a kayak in Hooper Bay in 1976.

       1977        THE ACQUISITION AND DOCUMENTATION OF AN ARTIFACT.  Canadian

                      Museums Association Gazette 10(4):18-34. 

                      Describes equipment and procedures used in acquiring and documenting a kayak in

                      Hooper Bay, Alaska.  Includes drawings of lines and all parts of the kayak along with

                      photos detailing its construction and use.

[PDF: full-text  5 pages; Lines Drawings  4 pages] 

       1978        KAYAKS OF HOOPER BAY, ALASKA.  In Contextual Studies of Material

                      Culture. David W. Zimmerly, ed., pp.27-44.Paper No.43, Canadian Ethnology

                      Service, Mercury Series.  Ottawa: National Museum of Man  

                      Compares Hooper Bay kayak style and use with that of the whole Yukon/Kuskokwim Delta

                       area and notes some reasons for the decline in kayak use in the area.

[PDF: full-text, photos & drawings  18 pages] 

       1978        SIBERIAN KAYAKS.  The Ash Breeze.  The Traditional Small Craft Association

                      Newsletter.  The Ash Breeze 1(4):6-9. 

                      Brief descriptions of Chukchi and Koryak kayaks with lines and construction drawings of

                      each type.

       1979        HOOPER BAY KAYAK CONSTRUCTION.  Paper No. 53, Canadian Ethnology

                      Service, Mercury Series.  118 pages.  Ottawa: National Museum of Man  

                      0316-1862. 

                      Provides the construction details of a 4.6 m (15') Bering Sea-type kayak made in the Yupik

                      Eskimo-speaking community of Hooper Bay, Alaska in October and November of 1976. 

                      Photographs, detail drawings and journal entries show the day to day work and progress

                      from the beginning splitting of stumps on 9 October to the final cockpit lashing on 8

                      November, thirty-one days later.  Included is a section giving Yupik Eskimo terms for the

                      kayak parts and accessories and the tools and materials used.  There are also instructions

                      for anyone wishing to make a working reproduction of this kayak including full-size

                      drawings of all major kayak parts in an end pocket.

       1979        THE NATIVE SMALL CRAFT TRADITION.  In Third Conference Proceedings of

                      the International Congress of Maritime Museums, 1978, pp.218-223.  Mystic:

                      Mystic Seaport Museums, Inc.   (IV-X-26)

                      A brief history of the collection, research and analysis of native North American small craft

                      (skin and reed boats, bark and dugout canoes).

       1980        ARCTIC KAYAKS.  Canadian Studies Report, pp.4.  Ottawa: National Museum of

                      Man  

                      A description of the kayak studies being carried out by the author along with some initial

                      results.

       1982        STABILITY AND TRIM CHARACTERISTICS OF NATIVE WATERCRAFT: A

Computerized Simulation Study  Paper presented at the 1982 CESCE Annual
Meetings, 7-11 May,
Vancouver, BC. Pp. 31.  (IV-X-142M).

A computer program to simulate kayak performance characteristics from measurements.
[PDF: full-text ; table of Comparative Kayak Data from [Simulation Program  Comparison    Mathematical Calculations Program - Calculations]

                       

       1982        THE COPPER ESKIMO.  In Canada's Visual History, Vol. 57.  19 pages. 

                      Includes 30 35mm slides.  Ottawa: National Museum of Man/National Film

                      Board of Canada.  

                      Short description of caribou hunting by kayak and two photos of Copper Eskimo kayaks.

       1983        BUILDING THE ONE-HOLE ALEUT BIDARKA.  Part I.  Small Boat Journal

                      (29):26-31.  Complete PDF for Parts I and II: here

                      Detailed instruction, lines drawings, construction drawings and photographs that describe

how to build this outstanding sea kayak.
[PDF: full-text, photos & drawings – p. 1 (26),  p. 2 (27),  p. 3 (28), p. 4 (29), p. 5 (30), p. 6 (31)] 

       1983        BUILDING THE ONE-HOLE ALEUT BIDARKA.  Part II.  Small Boat Journal

                      (30):78-83.  Complete PDF for Parts I and II: here

                      Detailed instruction, lines drawings, construction drawings and photographs that describe

                      how to build this outstanding sea kayak.

[PDF: full-text, photos & drawings – p. 1 (78) ,  p. 2 (79),  p. 3 (80), p. 4 (81), p. 5 (82), p. 6 (83)]  

       1983        FORM FOLLOWED FUNCTION -- And The Function Was Hunting.  In Skin, Sticks

                       & Bone.  By Rick Kemmer.  Canoe 11(1):78. 

                      Describes four solutions to the problem of designing a seaworthy sea-mammal-hunting

                      kayak-- from Greenland, Baffin Island, the Bering Sea & Strait and Siberia and the

Aleutians.

[PDF: full-text & photos p. 1 (78)]

       1983        THE CANOE RIDES HIGH IN THE WATER.  Review of The Canoe: A History of

                      the Craft from Panama to the Arctic by Kenneth G. Roberts and Philip

                      Shackleton, MacMillan, 1983.  September.  Quill & Quire 49(9):71. 

                      Discusses the chapter on skin boats which includes kayaks and umiaks from Siberia to

                      Greenland.

       1984        Review of THE CANOE: A History of the Craft from Panama to the Arctic by

                      Kenneth G. Roberts and Philip Shackleton, MacMillan, 1983.  September. 

                      Canoe 12(1):18. 

                      Discusses the chapter on skin boats which includes kayaks and umiaks from Siberia to

                      Greenland.

       1984        ANATOMY OF A BAIDARKA.  Spring.  Sea Kayaker 1(1):10-11. 

                      Short text accompanies lines drawings and construction details of a 19' 9" Aleut 1-hole

                      kayak collected in 1845 by I.G. Voznesenskii for the Museum of Anthropology and

                      Ethnography in St. Petersberg.

       1984        ARCTIC PADDLE DESIGN.  Winter.  Sea Kayaker 1(3):8-15. 

                      Paddles types and distribution, specialized paddles, Aleut paddles, Pacific Eskimo paddles,

                      Bering Sea paddles, Bering Strait paddles, North Alaska paddles, Mackenzie Eskimo

                      paddles, Caribou, Netsilik and Iglulik Eskimo paddles, East Arctic paddles, Greenland

paddles, and paddle construction.
[PDF: full-text, photos & drawings p. 1 (8), p. 2 (9) p. 3 (10), p. 4 (11),  p. 5 (12), p. 6 (13),  p. 7 (14), p. 8 (15) ]

       1984        THE HOOPER BAY KAYAK.  May/June.  Wooden Boat (58):74-79. 

                      Historical background of kayak use in Hooper Bay situated on the Bering Sea in Alaska

                      (Also describes the building of a kayak frame by Dick Bunyan).  Illustrated with lines

drawings and photographs.
[PDF: full-text, photos & drawings p. 1 (74), p. 2 (75), p. 3 (76), p. 4 (77), p. 5 (78), p. 6 (79)] 

       1984        THE KOTZEBUE SOUND KAYAK.  Summer-Fall.  Sea Kayaker 1(2):10-12. 

                      Complete lines and construction drawings.

       1985        THE 3-HOLE KODIAK KAYAK.  Spring.  Sea Kayaker 1(4):10-13. 

                      Complete lines and construction drawings. A rule of thumb.

       1985        THE BELCHER ISLANDS TWO-HOLE KAYAK.  Spring.  Sea Kayaker 2(4): 12, 13.

A two-hole kayak from 1942. Kayak construction, accessories and use.
[PDF: full-text, photos & drawings – 2 pages]

       1985        THE COPPER ESKIMO KAYAK: Product of a Nomadic Lifestyle.  Sea Kayaker

  2(1):10-13. 

  Complete lines and construction drawings. Kayak construction, accessories, and use.
[PDF: full-text, photos & drawings – 4 pages]

       1985        THE EAST HUDSON BAY KAYAK: A Variant from Povungnituk.  Sea Kayaker

                      2(2):7-9. 

A kayak made for the Ontario Science Centre. A photo essay.  [PDF: full-text, photos & drawings – p. 7, p. 8, p. 9]

       1985        THE MACKENZIE ESKIMO KAYAK.  Sea Kayaker 2(3):6-11. 

                      Mackenzie kayak prehistory, kayak construction, kayak accessories, kayak use, and use

                      as a recreational kayak.  [PDF: full text, photos & drawings - p.6, p.7, p.8, p.9, p.10, p.11]

       1986        QAJAQ: Kayaks of Siberia and Alaska.  Juneau, Alaska: Division of State

                      Museums.   E98.B6Z55 1986. 

93 p.; illustrated; bibliography, p. 85-88; includes index. All major styles of Alaskan and Siberian kayaks are represented with models, lines drawings, historic photographs or actual full-sized kayaks and associated equipment.

       2000        QAYAQ: Kayaks of Alaska and Siberia.  Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska
                              Press. Second edition. ISBN: 1-889963-10-0.   E99.E7 Z56-2000. 

103 p.; illustrated; bibliography, p. 91-95; includes index. All major styles of Alaskan and Siberian kayaks are represented with models, lines drawings, historic photographs or actual full-sized kayaks and associated equipment.  This book includes Mackenzie Eskimo kayaks.
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2000        HOOPER BAY KAYAK CONSTRUCTION.   107 pages, 84 figures, 89 photographs,
                    1 map, 3 appendices.
  ISBN 0-660-17511-8.  Ottawa: Canadian Museum of 
                    Civilization (
National Museum of Man).   (Reprinted from partial edition of 1979)

This book documents the construction of a Bering Sea style-kayak made in the community of Hooper Bay, Alaska in October and November 1976 under the direction of Dick Bunyan. Written as journal entries, the text details construction from the initial splitting of the wood to the final fitting of the cockpit lashings. Each step is illustrated with black-and-white photographs and line drawings. The author has also included detailed measurements of the kayak, a glossary of Yupik terms, and descriptions and drawings of kayak accessories. 

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2001        THE EAST ARCTIC KAYAK.  Sea Kayaker 18-4:6-19.   

A 22' kayak from Ivuyivik.. Kayak construction, accessories and use.  [PDF: full-text, photos & drawings – complete article (4.3 mb).  Individual pages:
p. 6 - The East Arctic Kayak- 504 kb
p. 7 - Gunwales- 255 kb
p. 8 - Temporary Spreaders - 243 kb
p. 9 - Deck Beams- 216 kb
p. 10 - Lashing the Gunwale & Deck Beams- 539 kb
p. 11 - Preparing the Deck Stringers - 272 kb
p. 12 - Ribs & Keelson - 267 kb
p. 13 - Bilge Stringer - 260 kb
p. 14 - Side Stringers & Cockpit - 267 kb
p. 15 - Covering the Kayak - 254 kb
p. 16 - Sewing the Canvas - 254 kb
p. 17 - Shrinking & Painting the Canvas - 254 kb
p. 18 - Accessories & Paddle - 259 kb
p. 19 - Marking & Cutting the Mortises - 289 kb

 

  Zorgdrager, C.G.

       1728        FLOURISHING RISE OF THE OLD AND PRESENT GREENLAND FISHERY. 

                      (Original: Bloeijende Opkomst Der Aloude en Hedendaagfche Groenlandsche

                      Visschery.Amsterdam). Unpublished English translation (17 typescript pages),

                      Library, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa. 

                      Description of kayak, p. 9 and umiak, p. 8.

No. of publications:  244                                               End of Kayak Bibliography

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