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Annotated Bibliography of Arctic Kayaks

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Kayak Bibliography                                                                   David W. Zimmerly

 

 


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  Ingstad, Helge

       1954        NUNAMIUT: Among Alaska's Inland Eskimos.  New York: W.W. Norton &

                      Company. 

                      Kayaks, pp. 32-33, 59-63, 88-89, 176-177.Several native drawings of kayak use.

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  Jenness, Aylette

       1970        DWELLERS OF THE TUNDRA: Life in an Alaskan Eskimo Village.  Photographs

                      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 Arctic

                      Expedition, 1913-18, Vol. 12, Pt. A.  Ottawa: F.A. Acland. 

                      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 Arctic

                      Expedition, 1913-18, Vol. 16.  Ottawa: King's Printer.  

                      Kayaks, pp. 139-141.

  Jensen, P. Scavenius

       1975        THE GREENLAND KAYAK AND ITS ACCESSORIES.  (Original: Den gronlandski

                      kajak og dens redskaber.Copenhagen: Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold

                      Busck).English translation (35 typescript pages), Library, Canadian Museum of

                      Civilization, Ottawa. 

                      A detailed study with many illustrations of the Greenland (mostly West Central Greenland)

                      kayak and all its equipment.Foldout scale drawings of Frederiksdal kayak and harpoon and

                      Sukkertoppen paddle. 
                             (PDFFor printing pp. 1-35, Development of the kayak-3; Structure of the kayak-16; The wooden
                             frame-16, The covering-20; The fittings-26, The kayak rudder-31) [Full text & Figures (HTML)]


  Jochelson, Waldemar

       1908        THE KORYAK.  The Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Volume 6.  Memoir,

                      American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 10.  Leiden, Holland: E.J. Brill.  

                      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 Washington. 

                      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        ALASKA AND THE LAW OF THE SEA: Use of the Sea by Alaska Natives--A

                      Historic  Anchorage: Arctic Environmental Information and Data Center,

                      University of Alaska. 

                      Contains historical data on Aleuts, Eskimos and Indians of Alaska with chapters on

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  Kane, Elisha Kent

       1854        THE U.S. GRINNELL EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.  New

                      York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 

                      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.

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  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

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                      Kayak measurements p. 320-323.

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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                                               End of Kayak Bibliography

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