Harvey Golden's Magnificent Kayak Surveys

  My usual approach to using reading material for this blog is to take some interesting (to me) facts that I read concerning some kind of bo...

Best Resource for Indigenous Boats Ever!

The title of this post is hyperbole in only the slightest degree, for Admiral A. Bertrand Paris's work Essai sur la Construction Navale ...

Bark Canoe and Skin Kayak Items at L.C. Bates Museum

Although founded in the early 20th century, the L.C. Bates Museum, in Hinckley, Maine, is a throwback to an even earlier time, when many mus...

Lockley's Curragh

(click any image to enlarge) A skilled naturalist and prolific writer, R.M. Lockley  (1903-2000) wrote more than 50 books, many of them abou...

More Alaska Eskimo Maritime Items: Peabody Museum #3

Let's look at more Aleut and other Alaskan Eskimo maritime and related cultural items at Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Arch...

Alaskan/Aleut Diorama, Kayaks: Peabody Museum #2

Here's a look at a display of Alaskan, and specifically Aleut, items at Harvard's   Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology . (W...

Baffinland Inuit Kayaks, Settlement: Peabody Museum #1

This is the first of several planned posts featuring boat-related displays at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard Un...

Netsilik Kayak Construction Video

Here's an interesting video from the National Film Board of Canada  showing the construction of a kayak by Netsilik Inuit people using a...