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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.829
EAN: 9781552977330
Edition: illustrated edition
ISBN: 1552977331
Label: Firefly Books
Manufacturer: Firefly Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 152
Publication Date: April 03, 2004
Publisher: Firefly Books
Studio: Firefly Books
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The definitive reference to indigenous peoples' watercraft around the world.
Tappan Adney (1868-1950) was an artist, writer, ethnographer, historian and modelmaker of unparalleled ability. He tirelessly documented the cultures and languages of vanishing native cultures. His most enduring legacy is the extraordinary 110 birchbark canoe models he handbuilt to exacting standards. The models, now held at The Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, were built to ensure future canoe builders had exact reproductions for reference.
These historically accurate, 1:5 scale models were meticulously researched, and traditionally constructed using the identical materials of the originals. Many are based on canoes that were the last example of their type. Before such a canoe disintegrated, Adney measured and recorded its dimensions, consulted with native builders and studied historical photographs and paintings.
The canoe models are organized into eight distinct groups: - Maritimes - Eastern Woodland - Northwest - Lower British Columbia - Fur Trade - Amur Valley - Asia - South America
Each canoe model is beautifully photographed and accompanied by captions that outline the craft's origins, uses and technical details. Adney's amazing technical drawings for the models are also included.
An extensive introduction covers Adney's life and provides information about native model builders, canoe decoration and fur trade heraldry.
Bark Canoes is the definitive reference to indigenous -- and ingenious -- watercraft used around the world.
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What a beautiful book this is - I saw it in a museum shop in Calgary while on holiday and I just had to have it. This is a celebration of the canoe-builders' art that almost never materialsed. Adney's notes and models could well have disappeared had it not been for some timely intervention by far-sighted individuals to preserve the collection and organise his notes into this and other books.
But surely a canoe is a canoe is a canoe... not after reading this! Such wonderfully crisp photos, ... Read More
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