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Kayak, model; equipment

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Accession no.: N: 246e
Title: Kayak, model; equipment
Description: Kayak, model and equipment. Labrador Inuit. Killiniq (Port Burwell), Newfoundland, Labrador, Canada, before 1931.
Object type: Kayak, model; equipment
Classified name:
Current cultural affiliation: Labrador Inuit
Former cultural affiliation: Labrador Eskimo
Current place name: Canada > Newfoundland > Labrador > Killiniq
Former place name: Canada > Newfoundland > Labrador > Port Burwell
Keyword(s): Models
Full description:

Kayak (a) is long with flat bottom. Frame is made of wood (only gunwales, keelson, 1 cross beam and two side stringers visible). D-shaped cockpit coaming is secured with seal skin thong. Bundle of wood shavings in interior. Frame is covered with dehaired seal skin sewn with sinew along flat deck. Triangular ivory harpoon rest is attached to one side of cockpit with seal skin thong. Two dehaired seal skin cross straps secured with wooden rivets are stretched across the deck in front of cockpit; a single cross strap of same is secured to deck behind cockpit. Two sinew loops are attached to deck behind cockpit; one on deck in front of cockpit. Wooden seal float (b) is attached to ivory harpoon head with dehaired seal skin thong. One end of thong is tied around seal's tail; opposite end is threaded through lateral line channel on underside of harpoon head. Ends of double-bladed wooden paddle (c) are tipped with ivory secured with ivory rivets. Harpoon (d) consists of a wooden shaft which tapers towards proximal end. Separate ivory foreshaft is secured to ivory tip at distal end of shaft with two seal skin thongs. Curved wooden hand rest is inserted one side of shaft; ivory peg (to hold the line taut) projects from shaft opposite hand rest. Wood rifle (c) has notched end; piece of wood (f) is rectangular in cross-section and pointed at each end.

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  • Width: Arraymm; height: ?mm; length: 122mm; diameter: ?mm; depth: Arraymm