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citation is a full-text original publication. Kayak Bibliography David W. Zimmerly
A | TopAbbes, H. 1884 THE ESKIMO OF CUMBERLAND
SOUND. [Original: Die Eskimos des Cumberland-Sundes. Unpublished English translation (36
typescript pages)]. Ottawa: Library, Canadian Museum of
Civilization. Globus (46):198-201, 213-218. Drawings of a Cumberland Sound,
Baffin Island kayak on p. 214. Adam,
Paul 1978 THE ESKIMO KAYAK. Subject bibliography compiled for the
Seventh Conference of Nordic Libraries, Paris, September 1978. [Original in French, 4 pages. Unpublished English translation (4
typescript pages)]. Ottawa: Library, Canadian Museum of
Civilization. Sources are very brief, but there
is some interesting filmography on kayak use. Adney,
Edwin Tappan and Howard I. Chapelle 1964 THE BARK CANOES AND SKIN BOATS OF
NORTH AMERICA. Bulletin 230. Washington: Smithsonian
Institution. This is a major work on kayaks
including a discussion and scale drawings of almost all types, pp. 174-211. Appendix by John Heath on the kayak roll,
pp. 223-229. Aigner,
Jean S. 1974 STUDIES IN THE EARLY PREHISTORY OF
NIKOLSKI BAY: 1937-1971. Anthropological Papers of the
University of Alaska 16(1):9-25. Contains a good summary of Aleut
prehistory and a claim that Aleuts had kayaks 4,000 years ago (p.11). Amundsen,
Roald 1908 THE NORTH WEST PASSAGE. In two volumes. London: Archibald Constable and Company Limited Netsilik kayak construction, pp.
305-306| photo of frame, p. 304| covering kayak, pp. 322-323| Amundsen tries kayak, pl
226| photo of kayak, p. 223| comparison to Greenland kayak, p. 222| photo of three-kayak
raft, p. 113. Anderson,
Svend T. 1969-70 ARTICLE ON AN ALEUT KAYAK, A GIFT
TO UBERSEE MUSEUM, BREMEN, GERMANY IN 1857 BY WHALE-HUNTING
COMPANY OF ABO. (Original in Swedish, Budkavlen
1969-70:132-134).Unpublished English translation (4 typescript pages), Library,
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa.
Picture and description is of a
three-hole Kodiak, not Aleut, kayak, no. C4785. See also K.A. Fritsch, 1973. Anonymous 1934 THE ESKIMO KAYAK. The Polar Record (7):52-62. Describes a kayak made in England
based on an Angmagssalik model used in the British Arctic Air Route Expedition of 1930-31.Also
discusses other aspects of kayaking in East Greenland. 1961 THE ESKIMO ROLL.
Canoeing pamphlet 4. London:
British Canoe Union. 147a Station Road, E.4 11 page pamphlet that describes
methods to roll modern kayaks. 1972 CANOES AND CANOEING: A Bibliography. Bibliographical Services Division, Provincial Library, Regina,
Saskatchewan. Mostly about canoes except for
English publications that refer to kayaks and these are usually the commercial type. Very
uneven in coverage. 1975 ARCTIC TWILIGHT: The Paintings of Kivetoruk Moses. American Heritage 26(4):16-21. Moses was a native of Cape
Espenberg. One of his pictures on bottom of p. 18 shows a Cape Espenberg-type kayak with a
dead seal strapped on the front right side. Antropova,
V.V. 1961 BOATS. Lewis Henry Morgan, trans. (Original: Lodi.In
Istoriko-etnograficheskii atlas Sibiri.M.G. Levina and L.P.
Potapova, eds. Pp. 107-129.Akademiia Nauk SSSR, Institut
etnografii.Leningrad: Izdatyelstvo Akademii nauk SSSR). Unpublished English translation (66
typescript pages), Library, Canadian Museum of Civilization. E99.56, Box 668 f. 7. Photos and drawings of many
Siberian boats including Eskimo, Koryak and Chukchi kayaks. 1964 THE KORYAKS. In
The Peoples of Siberia.M.G. Levin and L.P. Potapov eds.Pp. 851-875. (Original: Narody Sibiri.
Published in Russian, 1956, Moscow). Chicago: University of Chicago
Press. Photograph of a Koryak kayak on p.
863. Apakok,
Ali 1985 FROM THE BELCHERS TO GREAT WHALE BY
KAYAK. Inuktitut (60):4-17. In the summer of 1943, four Inuit
made a crossing from the Belcher Islands to the mainland of Post-de-la-Baleine. Arima,
Eugene Y. 1964 NOTES ON THE KAYAK AND ITS
EQUIPMENT AT IVUYIVIK, P.Q. In
Bulletin 194, pp. 221-261. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of
Civilization. Well-illustrated and documented
study of the refurbishing of a kayak (NMM IV-B-767) at Ivuyivik. 1973 HOW TO BUILD AN ESKIMO KAYAK. Unpublished manuscript No. 1005.20, pp. 79. Archives, Canadian Museum of Civilization,
Ottawa. (IV-B-82M). Draft ms. with instructions, but
few illustrations for building two sizes of Eastern Canadian Arctic kayaks and two sizes of
Caribou Eskimo kayaks. 1975 A CONTEXTUAL STUDY OF THE CARIBOU ESKIMO KAYAK. Paper No. 25, Canadian Ethnology Service, Mercury
Series. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization. Good study including a summary
survey of kayak types and discussion of kayaks in the archaeological record. 1975 HOW TO BUILD KAYAKS OF THE CANADIAN ARCTIC. Unpublished manuscript No. 1005.23, pp. 100, 9 photos, 11 illustrations.
Archives, Canadian Museum of Information for the recreational
paddler to build two East Arctic and two Caribou Eskimo kayaks. 1987 INUIT KAYAKS IN CANADA: A Review of Historical Records and
Construction. Based Mainly on the Canadian Museum
of Civilization's Collection. Paper
No. 110, Canadian Ethnology Service Ottawa: Canadian Museum of
Civilization 235. A score of scale lines drawings,
mostly of kayaks in the Canadian Museum of Civilization, are included along with some
photographs. 1991 CONTRIBUTIONS TO KAYAK STUDIES. Edited by Eugene Y. Arima, John D. Heath, Guy Mary-Rousseliere,
Kenneth I. Taylor, William S. Laughlin, Knut Bergssland, John Brand, Joseph
Lubisher, George Dyson and Gert Nooter. Canadian Ethnology Service, Mercury
Series, Paper 122. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization. The Canadian Museum of Civilization
has been active in kayak studies since the 1960s. This volume of collected papers
continues this involvement and reflects the Museum’s major kayak collection. The first
two papers describe King Island and North Baffin kayaks, their construction and other
details, and includes line drawings. Other articles, also illustrated with line drawings, are
on kayak design variation; Greenland kayaks; "kayak fear"; Canadian revival; and
the fascinating Aleut designs. Although all the studies are kayak-related, they vary in
specific focus and approach. Armstrong,
Alex 1857 A PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF THE
DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers. Concerns Eastern Mackenzie Eskimos
around Cape Bathurst. Description of
kayak, p. 182| use of double paddle, p. 185| repair of leaks, pp. 185-186, 188|
whale hunt, pp. 182-183| taboos for killing whales, p. 176|
single paddle, p. 182|173, 179, 180-82. Arutyunov,
S.V., M.G. Levin and D.A. Sergeyev 1964 ANCIENT BURIALS ON THE CHUKCHI
PENINSULA. In Henry N. Michael, ed., The Archaeology and Geomorphology
of Northern Asia: Selected Works, pp. 333-346. Arctic Institute of North
America, Anthropology of the North: Translations from Russian
Sources/No. 5. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Shows drawings of two ivory kayak
models found in Ekven Cemetary in Uelen, East Cape, Siberia. B
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Babcock,
William H. 1913 ESKIMO LONG-DISTANCE VOYAGES. American Anthropologist 15:138-141. Discusses 'Finn men' literature and
some Greenland and Labrador material to posit Labrador to Greenland Invasions of
Eskimo. Balikci,
Asen 1960 A NOTE ON THE 'POOR KAYAK' OF THE WESTERN
LABRADOR ESKIMO. Man 60(5, 6):9. Describes a frameless,
sealskin-covered craft filled with snow and used at the floe edge to retrieve shot seals. Barker,
James 1976 REBUILDING A KAYAK. May 1 edition of bi-weekly newspaper of
Bethel, Alaska. Tundra Drums 3(2):12, 13. Contains many photos and some
interesting text concerning the recovering and repairing of a Hooper Bay, Alaska kayak
originally built for the museum in Bethel, Alaska. Barnett,
Lincoln 1956 THE GROWTH OF SOCIETY. In The Epic of Man: Part III. Life
40(9):70-83, 85, 86, 88, 91. Photographs of Caribou Eskimo
kayaks on pp. 80, 81, 86. Binney,
George 1929 HUDSON BAY IN 1928. The Geographical Journal 74(1):1-27. Kayak mentioned on pl 12.Excellent photo
of two Baker Lake kayaks tied together as a sort of catamaran, p. 13. Birket-Smith,
Kaj 1924 ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE EGEDESMINDE
DISTRICT. Meddelelser om Gronland 66. West Greenland. Kayak clothing, pp. 181-188| The Kayak,
pp. 260-277.Characteristics of six types of West Greenland kayaks
are discussed. 1928-29 THE GREENLANDERS OF THE PRESENT DAY. In Greenland.M. Vahl, ed., Vol. 2:1-207. Copenhagen: C.A.
Reitzel. The Kayak, pp. 166-174.Characteristic
features of six main Greenland kayak types and their distribution and numbers. 1929 THE CARIBOU ESKIMOS: Material and Social Life and Their
Cultural Position. Report of the Fifth Thule
Expedition 1921-24, Vol. 5, Part 1. Kayaks and their fittings, pp.
185-188. 1929 THE CARIBOU ESKIMOS: Material and Social Life and Their
Cultural Position. Report of the Fifth Thule
Expedition 1921-24, Vol. 5, Part 2. Kayaks are discussed on pp. 5, 6, 76-79,
172-175, 261-263, 339-341.Tables included in above show distribution of kayaks
and appurtenances and give some bibliography. 1932-33 CHIEF MERCHANT N.C. GEELMUYDEN'S DESCRIPTION OF THE KAYAK
AND ITS EQUIPMENT. (Original: Overkobmand N.C. Geelmuydens
beskrivelse af kajakken og dens udstyr.
Gronlandske selskab. Aarsskrift, 1932-33, pp. 225-228). Unpublished English
translation (6 typescript pages), Library, Canadian Museum of Civilization,
Ottawa. Contains a brief biography of Niels
Christian Geelmuyden (1706-1770) and describes the kayak, its outfitting, hunting
weapons, manner of hunting birds and seals, etc. 1941 EARLY COLLECTIONS FROM THE PACIFIC ESKIMO. In Ethnographical Studies. Nationalmuseets Skrifter.
Etnografisk Raekke 1:121-163. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel,
Nordisk Forlag. Description of one-hole Kodiak
baidarka, Mus. Nr. DNM Ib 160, pp. 147-148; photo of same, p. 149. 1945 ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS FROM THE NORTHWEST
PASSAGE. Report of the Fifth Thule
Expedition 1921-24, Vol. 6, No. 2. Kayaks and Accessories of the
Netsilik Eskimos, pp. 78-81 Kayak and
Accessories of the Copper Eskimos, pp. 187-189. 1953 THE CHUGACH ESKIMO.
Nationalmuseets Skrifter. Etnografisk Raekke 6. Copenhagen: Nationalmuseets
Publikationsfond. Kayak description and measurements,
both metric and anthropometric, pp. 45-49. Black,
Lydia T., translator and editor 1977 THE KONYAG (The Inhabitants of the
Island of Kodiak). By Iosaf (Bolotov)
(1794-1799) and by Gideon
(1804-1807). Arctic Anthropology
14(2):79-108. Excellent glossary of old Russian
terms and many references to baidarkas, pp. 84-85, 87, 90, 94-95, 98, 100-103 and to
baidaras, pp. 86-88, 90, 92-93, 99-100, 102. 1907 THE ESKIMO OF BAFFIN LAND AND HUDSON BAY. Bulletin 15. New York: American Museum of Natural
History. Cumberland Sound kayak, pp. 9-18;
Netsilik and Caribou Eskimo kayaks, pp. 76-81. Small carvings for kayaks,
pp.423-426. Drawings and illustrations included.
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Material Culture of Cumberland Sound
p.9-18), West Coast of Hudson Bay - p. 6 (76-81), 1964 THE CENTRAL ESKIMO.
Originally published as part of the Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1888. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Description of Cumberland Sound
kayak and its use with comparative notes on other kayaks, pp. 77-90. [Go to site that has the full book in PDF
form] (PFD - full text: Canadian Institute for Historical
Microreproductions) Bogojavlensky,
Sergei 1969 IMAANGMIUT ESKIMO CAREERS:
Skinboats in Bering Strait. Ph.D.
dissertation, The Department of Social Relations,
Harvard University. Concerns open skin boats with
passing references to kayaks. Bogoras,
Waldemar 1909 THE CHUKCHEE. Reprinted from Volume 7, Jesup North
Pacific Expedition, 1904-1909. Memoir 11, American Museum of Natural
History. Descriptions of skin boats with
some notes on the Koryak and Asiatic Eskimos, pp. 126-136. Brantenberg, Terje 1971 NOTES ON A LABRADOR KAYAK. Unpublished manuscript in Zimmerly kayak files. 15 xerox sheets. Notes on a kayak constructed in
summer 1971 in Nain, Labrador for the Moravian Mission's Bi-centennial. [Full-text PFD – 15 pages] Brinck,
Wolfgang 1995 THE ALEUTIAN KAYAK: Origins, Construction, and Use of the
Traditional Seagoing Baidarka. Camden: Ragged Mountain Press. Excellent how-to-build book. Full of construction tips. P. 176. Brindley,
H.H. 1919 NOTES ON THE BOATS OF SIBERIA. The Mariner's Mirror 5(3): 66-72, 101-107,
130-142, 184-187| 6:15-18. 'Canoes and Boats of Skin Sewn on a
Wood or Bone Frame', pp. 130-142| illustrations of kayak bow shapes, p. 132. Byde,
Alan 1966 THE KAYAK HUNTER. American Whitewater 12(1):5-9. General article on a Greenland
kayak hunter and his equipment and methods.Includes comments by John Heath on kayak
fear and on kayak equipment. Cantwell, J.C. 1894 ALASKAN BOATS. Outing Magazine 23:388-391. Short popular article mentioning
Aleut bidarkas and Eskimo kayaks and umiaks from King Island and Point Barrow. Carrighar,
Sally 1958 MOONLIGHT AT MIDDAY. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Story of Unalakleet man in kayak
hunt for bearded seal, pp. 161-165.Good photo of Bering Sea kayak being made and Norton
Sound/Bering Strait type kayak between pp. 42 and 43. 1932 NORTHERN LIGHTS: The Official Account
of the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition. London: Chatto and Windus. Concerns the Angmagssalik area
(East Greenland) kayaks| The Art of Kayaking, pp. 198-212. [PDF: Full text & Plates ] Collins,
Henry B., Austin Clark & Egbert H. Walker 1945 THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: Their People
and Natural History. War Background Studies No. 21. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. Contains short description of skin
boats and their use in hunting sea mammals, pp. 27-30. Collins,
Joseph W. 1895 HISTORY OF BOAT COLLECTION IN U.S.
NATIONAL MUSEUM AND DESCRIPTION OF MODEL. Four bound unpublished manuscript volumes
in archives of National Museum of
History and Technology. Descriptions and collection data on
all kayaks and umiaks, both models and full-size, in National Museum collections in
1895, pp. 52-56, 733-839. Collinson,
Richard 1889 JOURNAL OF H.M.S. ENTERPRISE, ON
THE EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S BY BEHRING STRAIT.
1850-55. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington,
Limited. Definition of kayak, baidar and umiak,
p. 74| purchase of kayak in Port Clarence and Cambridge Bay, pp. 274-275, 333|
three-piece keelson, p. 284| no umiaks in Cambridge Bay, p. 284. Cook,
James and James King 1785 A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in
the Northern Hemisphere. Second
edition, in 3 volumes. London: H. Hughs. Volume 3, app. 6 is a short
comparative vocabulary of Aleut and Eskimo dialects.Kayaks in vol.2: Prince William Sound, p.371|Kodiak, p.417|Cape Newnham,
pp.436-437|East Cape, p.451| Unalaska, p.513-515. Plate has 1-hole Aleut and 2-hole Pacific
Eskimo kayaks. Curtis,
Edward S. 1930 THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN. Volume 20. Nunivak, King Island, Little Diomede Island, Cape Prince of
Wales, Kotzebue. Norwood: The Plimpton Press. Extensive material on kayaks,
especiallyfor Nunivak Island, pp.12-13, 48, 50, 52-54, 71. Also for Hooper Bay, King Island,
Noatak, Cape Prince of Wales, Little Diomede Island and Kotzebue.Extensive vocabulary
items. Curtis,
Roger 1774 PARTICULARS OF THE COUNTRY OF
LABRADOR, EXTRACTED FROM THE PAPERS OF LIEUTENENT ROGER CURTIS,
OF HIS MAJESTY'S SLOOP THE OTTER, WITH A PLANE-CHART OF THE
COAST. Royal Society of London, Philosophical Transactions 64, Part
2, pp. 372-388. Labrador kayak description, p. 386. No. of publications: 242
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