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  citation is a full-text original publication.   Kayak Bibliography                                                                   David W. Zimmerly 
   Ingstad,
  Helge        1954        NUNAMIUT: Among                        Company.                         Kayaks, pp. 32-33, 59-63, 88-89,
  176-177.Several native drawings of kayak use.   Jenness,
  Aylette        1970        DWELLERS OF THE TUNDRA: Life in an                        by Jonathan Jenness.New York: Crowell-Collier
  Press.                         Use of kayak in open water with ice
  and modern use of canvas instead of sealskin, p.                        111.Photos of the village (Chevak)
  show kayaks.   Jenness,
  Diamond        1923        THE LIFE OF THE COPPER
  ESKIMOS.  Report of the Canadian                        Expedition, 1913-18, Vol. 12, Pt.
  A.                         Women's use of kayaks, p.
  88.Caribou hunting from kayaks, pp. 124, 148-149.        1946        MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE COPPER ESKIMO.  Report of the Canadian                        Expedition, 1913-18, Vol. 16.                         Kayaks, pp. 139-141.        1975        THE                        kajak og dens redskaber.Copenhagen:
  Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold                        Busck).English translation (35 typescript
  pages), Library,                        Civilization,                        A detailed study with many
  illustrations of the                        kayak and all its equipment.Foldout
  scale drawings of Frederiksdal kayak and harpoon and                        Sukkertoppen paddle.     Jochelson, Waldemar        1908        THE KORYAK.  The Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Volume
  6.  Memoir,                                               This is the standard work on the
  Koryak.                                              Kayaks, pp. 539-540.  Drawings and carvings illustrating kayaks,
  pp. 663-664, 725-726.        1928        PEOPLE OF THE FOGGY SEAS. 
  Natural History 28(4):413-424.                         Describes Aleut as studied by author
  in 1909-10.  There are good pictures of
  hunters and                        baidarkas, some with covering
  removed for winter.        1933        HISTORY, ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE ALEUT.  Publication                        No. 432.Washington: Carnegie
  Institution of                        Survey of literature on Aleut
  boats, pp. 24-26.  Ethnographic notes
  on The Skin Boat, pp.                        55-57.  Photos of skin boats, pp. 40, 56 and
  58.  Photo of kayakers' dress, p. 57.   Josephson,
  Karla        1974        
                         Historic                                                Contains historical data on Aleuts,
  Eskimos and Indians of Alaska with chapters on K | Top   Kane,
  Elisha         1854        THE                                               Chapter 50 contains sections on The
  Kayack, its Form and Construction| Esquimaux                        Implements of the Hunt| Uses of the
  Kayack| Feats of the Kayackers and Hazards: pp.                        475-484.All kayak material relates
  to Greenland.   Keim,
  Charles J. and Bill Bacon        1960        FARTHEST-NORTH OUTBOARDING.  Alaska Sportsman, May:18-20, 50.                         Mainly describes construction and
  use of the umiak at Pt. Barrow, Alaska.Photo of                        canvas-covered Pt. Barrow kayak, p.
  20.   Knight,
  Frederica        1960        THE NEW KAYAK.  The Beaver, Outfit 290:30-37.                         Good photos and descriptions of the
  covering of two skin kayaks in Povungnituk, northern                        Quebec.   Konig,
  Herbert        1930        DID THE PRE-ESKIMOAN TORNIT KNOW
  THE KAYAK?  (Original: Kannten die                        voreskimoischen Tornit das
  Kajak?  Petermanns geographische
  mitteilujgen                        76(9-10):252).  Unpublished translation (1 typescript
  page), Library, Canadian                        Museum of Civilization, Ottawa.                         The author answers no.   Kosiba,
  Aleksander        1937        GREENLAND.  (Original: Grenlandia.  Lwow-Warszawa, Ksiaznica-atlas, pp.                        347-447).  Unpublished English translation (73
  typescript pages), Library,                        Canadian Museum of Civilization,
  Ottawa.                         Kayak, pp. 34-40.Umiak, pp.
  41-42.Seal hunting by kayak pp. 47-51.   Krabbe,
  Th. N.        1930        GREENLAND: Its Nature, Inhabitants
  and History.  Copenhagen: Levin &                        Munksgaard.                         Popular description of Greenland
  touches on kayaks and their use pp. 3, 5, 32, 33, 54, 78,                        79, 106, 107.  Kayaks in photos, Plates 2, 19, 29, 105,
  126, 131, 133.   Krasheninnikov,
  Stepan Petrovich        1972        EXPLORATIONS OF KAMCHATKA: North
  Pacific Scimitar.  Report of a journey                        made to explore eastern Siberia in
  1735-1741.  Translated and with
  introduction                        and Notes by E.A.P.  Crownhart-Vaughan.(Original: Opisanie Zemli
                         Kamchatki).Portland: Oregon
  Historical Society.                         Description of American kayaks on
  p. 71.  Drawing of two Aleut baidarkas
  on p. 72 is from                        atlas volume of   Kreutzmann,
  Jens        1975        THE GREENLAND KAYAK.  In Gronland 75: Welcome to Greenland.  Pp. 17, 19,                        21, 23, 25.  Text in English, Danish and German.Rungsted
  Kyst (Denmark):                        Anders Nyborg AS Internationalt
  Forlag.                         Well-written article by head of
  Godthab's Gronlands Landsmuseum.  Good
  line drawings                        of kayaks from Julianehab, Thule,
  East Greenland and Narssaq near Godthab. L | Top   Laguna,
  Frederica de        1956        CHUGACH PREHISTORY: The Archaeology
  of Prince William Sound, Alaska.                         Seattle: University of Washington
  Press.                         Pp. 245-249 mention bidarka frame
  and paddle fragments.  Also Plate 57,
  p. 246 pictures a                        three-hole bidarka frame from
  Chenaga Village in 1933.   Lantis,
  Margaret        1933-34    ATKA FIELD NOTES.  Unpublished field notes on kayaks and kayak
  travel (23                        typescript pages).  Zimmerly kayak files.                         Interesting material on kayak
  construction and kayak travel including collection notes for                        the Aleut frame (LM 2/14886) now in
  the Lowie Museum.        1939-40    NUNIVAK FIELD NOTES. 
  Unpublished field notes on deposit with James W.                        Vanstone, literary executor to
  Margaret Lantis.  Chicago: Field Museum
  of                        Natural History.                         Includes 38 typescript pages of
  miscellaneous field notes on kayaks.        1946        THE SOCIAL CULTURE OF THE NUNIVAK ESKIMO.  Transactions of the                        American Philosophical Society
  35(3):153-323.                         Kayak photos on pp. 175 and
  189.Text on pp. 164, 167, 177, 193, 194.        1947        ALASKAN ESKIMO CEREMONIALISM.  Monograph 11, American Ethnological                        Society.  Seattle: University of Washington
  Press.                         Material on boat launching
  ceremonies for groups from Nunivak north to Barrow, pp.                        38-42.Kayaks on graves, pp. 9-20.   Laughlin,
  W.S.        1966        GENETICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL
  CHARACTERISTICS OF ARCTIC                        POPULATIONS.  In J.S. Weiner, ed., The Biology of Human
  Adaptability.Pp.                        469-495.  Oxford: Clarendon Press.                         Kayak hysteria (kayak angst), p.
  488.   LeMouel,
  Jean-Francois        1978        PEOPLE OF THE SEA GULL. The
  Naujamiut Eskimo of West Greenland. A study                        of human ecology.  (Original: "Ceux des mouettes"
  Les Eskimo naujamiut                        Groeland-Ouest documents d'ecologie
  humaine. Memoires de l'institut                        d'ethnologie-XVI, museum National
  d'histoire naturelle. Paris: Musee de                        l'homme. Unpublished English
  translation                         Unpublished English translation of
  pp.155-66 (14 typescript pages), 
  Library, National                        Museums of Canada, Ottawa.   Lethbridge,
  T.C.        1938        UMIAK: The European Ancestry of
  the  Mariners Mirror 24:318-328.                         Compares and makes a case for the
  Eskimo umiak as having been evolved from boats of                        Irish or Scottish origin,
  especially the curragh.   Liapunova,
  Rosa Gavrilovna        1964        ALEUTIAN BAIDARKAS.  Lewis Henry Morgan, trans. (Original:
  Aleutskie                        Baidarki.Akademiia nauk SSSR.Muzei
  antrop. i etnog. Sbornik 22:223-242).                         Unpublished English translation (33
  typescript pages), Library, Canadian                        Museum of Civilization,
  Ottawa.                         Describes Aleut kayak construction
  and use based on Russian literature and examination                        of museum collections of both
  models and full-size craft.        1964        ESSAYS ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE ALEUTS (the end of the
  18th century                        - first half of the nineteenth
  century)  (Original: Ocherki po
  etnografii Aleutov                        [koknets XVIII - pervaya polovina
  XIX v.]  Leningrad: Nauka Press).  Unpublished                        English translation (26 typescript
  pages), Library, Canadian Museum of                        Civilization, Ottawa.                         Comprehensive coverage of skin
  boats on pp. 88-101.   Lisiansky,
  Urey        1814        A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD IN THE YEARS
  18903, 4, 5 & 6.  London: John                        Booth                          Kodiak Island: bidarka descriptions
  and measurements for one, two and three-hole variant,                        pp. 211-212.Tools, pp. 206-207.Weapons, p.
  206. Sea-otter hunt, pp. 203-205. 
  Education,                        p. 202.Whaling, p. 202.Bidarka on grave, p.
  200.   Lyon,
  George F.        1824        The Private Journal of Captain G.
  F. Lyon of H. M. S. Hecla, During THE MOST 
                         VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY UNDER CAPTAIN
  PARRY.  London: John Murray,                        Albermarle Street                       e-Street                          Kayak measurements p. 320-323. M | Top        Mason, Otis T.        1899        POINTED BARK CANOES OF THE KUTENAI
  AND AMUR.  With notes on the                        Kutenai Canoe by Meriden S.
  Hill.Report of the U.S. National Museum                        1899:525-537.                         Drawings and discussion of Yakut
  and Goldi double paddles and distribution of paddle                        types, p. 536.   Mathers,
  Charles W.        1972        A TRIP TO THE ARCTIC CIRCLE.  Alberta Historical Review 20(4):6-15.                         Photograph taken in 1901 at Fort
  McPherson on the Peel River of Mackenzie Eskimo in                        kayaks.  Article first published in the Farmers
  Advocate, Winnipeg, 21 Dec. 1903.   Mathiassen,
  Therkel        1928        MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE IGLULIK
  ESKIMOS.  Report of the Fifth Thule                        Expedition, 1921-24, Vol. 6, No.
  1.Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel,                        Nordisk Forlag.                         The kayak, pp. 91-97.   McGhee,
  Robert        1974        BELUGA HUNTERS: An Archaeological
  Reconstruction of the History and                        Culture.  Illustrated by D.W. Laverie.  Newfoundland Sopcial and Economic                        Studies No. 13.Institute of Social
  and Economic Research.St. John's: Memorial                        University of Newfoundland.                         Describes finds dating Mackenzie
  horned kayak to 500 B.P.        1976        WEST ALASKAN INFLUENCES IN MACKENZIE ESKIMO CULTURE.  In                        Contributions to Anthropology: The Interior
  Peoples of Northern Alaska.Edwin S.                        Hall, ed.Pp. 177-192.Paper No. 49,
  Archaeological Survey of Canada, Mercury                        Series.  Ottawa: Canadian Museum of
  Civilization.                         Brief reference to kayaks, pp.
  184-185.   Menovshchikov,
  G.A.        1959        ESKIMOSY.  (A popular-scientific
  historico-ethnographic sketch on the Asiatic                        Eskimos).  (Original: Eskimosy.Magadan: Magadanskoe
  Knizhnoe Izdatyelstvo).                         Unpublished English translation (5
  typescript pages), Library, Canadian                        Museum of Civilization,
  Ottawa.                         Kayak and Umiak, pp. 52-55.        1976        THE NAMES AND FUNCTIONS OF BOATS OF THE TYPE UMIAQ, ANJAQ,
  AND                        QAJAQ AMONG ESKIMOS AND
  ALEUTIANS.  (Original: O Nazvaniyakh I                        Funktsiyakh Lokok Tipa Umiak',
  An'iak', K'aiak' U Eskimosov I Aleutov.                        Sovetskaya Etnografiya 1976
  2:113-117). Unpublished English translation (11                        typescript pages), Library,
  Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa. 
                         Gives etymologies of the names of
  Eskimo-Aleutian boats.  Posits
  Eskimo/Aleut split of 4,                        000 to 5, 000 years ago and says
  both umiak and kayak existed side by side from the                        beginning.   Metayer,
  Maurice (editor and translator)        1966        I, NULIGAK.  Illustrations by Ekootak.  Pocket Book edition, 1971.  Richmond Hill:                        Simon & Schuster of Canada, Ltd.                         Good description of white whale
  hunt from kayaks, pp. 15-17.Other references to kayaks                        and their use scattered throughout.   Muller-Wismar,
  Wilhelm        1912        AUSTRONESIAN CANOES AS CULT AND
  BATTLE SYMBOLS.  (Original:                        Austroinsulare Kanu als Kult- und
  Kriegs-Symbole.  Baessler-Archiv
  2:235-249).                        
  Unpublished English translation (33 typescript pages), Library,
  Canadian                        Museum of Civilization,
  Ottawa.                         Author makes a case for the bifid
  bow of Pacific kayaks originating with the Hawaiians,                        pp. 13, 14 and fig. 50-54, p. 20.   Murdock,
  John        1891        ESKIMO BOATS IN THE NORTHWEST.  Popular Science Monthly 39(5):682-687.                        
                         Good description of use of umiaks
  and kayaks in the Point Barrow and Cape Smyth areas                        of Alaska.        1892        ETHNOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE POINT BARROW EXPEDITION.  Ninth                        Annual Report of the Bureau of
  Ethnology, 1887-1888. Washington: Government                        Printing Office.                         The major work on North
  Alaska.  Kayaks and umiaks, pp.
  328-344. Figs 381 and 382, pp.                        381-382 show model kayaks, one
  being of a Mackenzie type and the other a Bering Strait                        type.                       (PFD - full text: Canadian Institute for Historical
  Microreproductions)  No. of
  publications:  242                                              
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