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Replica of a Pacific Yuit kayak
Provenance unknown. The
original is from the D.f. Tozier Collection by the
Museum of the American Indian, 1918.
Length
14'-6 1/4"
Beam
27-11/16"
Depth to Shear 13-3/8"
Lines taken off by Harvey Golden |
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Replica of an Aleut
Two Hole Kayak
The original is in the U.S. National
Museum, Washington, D.C. USNM 160336.
Length
20'-7"
Beam
22"
Depth to Shear 12"
Lines taken off by David Zimmerly |
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Typical Greenland
style kayak
Length
17'
Beam
18"
Depth to Shear 5" |
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Replica of Mackenzie Delta
kayak
NMM IV-D-2039 in the collection of the
National Museums of Canada.
Length
16'-5"
Beam
19"
Depth to Shear 9-1/2"
Lines taken off by David Zimmerly, 1974. |
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Replica of the Lowie
Baidarka
LM 2-14886, Lowie Museum, University of
California, Berkeley.
Length
16'-8.6"
Beam
20.4"
Depth to Shear 8.7"
Lines taken off by David Zimmerly, 1978. |
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Replica of the Inland
Chukchi
The original is in the Museum of
Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia and was collected
between 1904 and 1907.
Length 16'-8"
Beam
19-1/2"
Depth to Shear 9-1/4"
Lines taken off by David Zimmerly, 1975. |
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Caribou Kayak
The photo was taken on the shores of Baker Lake
in the mid 1960's by Eugene Arima while doing field work
in the area. The community joined together to replicate
the craft that were used in the past. |
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Replica of an Aleut Kayak
The original is in the Museum of Anthropology and
Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia. It was collected in 1845, Akun Island, Aleutian Islands.
Length
19'-1"
Beam
17.1"
Depth to Shear 8.3"
Lines taken off by David Zimmerly, 1975. |
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East Arctic
Kayak
This is a reproduction from David Zimmerly's
"East Arctic Kayak: Building a Reproduction"
Length
21'-0"
Beam
27"
Depth to Shear 9-1/2" |
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Replica of
a Bering Sea Kayak
This replica of a Hooper Bay kayak was built from David Zimmerly's book, "Hooper Bay Kayak Construction".
Length
15'-1/4"
Beam
30-1/8"
Depth to Shear
9-3/8" |
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Nansen's Bamboo Kayaks
This is a replica of
one of the two kayaks that Nansen and Johansen used to
paddle back from their attempt to reach the North Pole
in 1895. They made it to 86* 14' and then spent two
years walking and paddling back to Franz Joseph Land and
a ride back to Norway. The kayaks were made out of
bamboo and seemed rather crude, but they did the job. I
found the bamboo difficult to work with at first but
eventually developed some modest skills. The two
kayaks were deep and beamy and interesting to construct.
Read "Farthest North". |
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The Bering Strait Two Hole This is a replica of the first kayak that David Zimmerly
took lines off of, the Bering Strait Two Hole. It is an
extremely stout, almost massive in it's construction,
but similar in some respects to the Hooper Bay single.
It was slow to construct as the ribs were one and one
half inches in diameter. Make from stout young trees,
they had to be cut in half lengthwise and steamed to get
the proper shape. |