Boat model ·  Canada - Alaska - Greenland, Inuit · ID: 3032886

Description

leather, wood, bone, slender kayak with a wooden frame, coated by animal skin, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion;
the term “kajak” derives from the greenlandish word “qajaq”, a paddle boat driven by man power with a double-bladed paddle. They were originally developed by indigenous Inuit people, who used the boats to hunt on inland lakes, rivers and coastal waters of the Arctic Ocean, North Atlantic, Bering Sea and North Pacific oceans. These first kayaks were constructed from stitched seal or other animal skins stretched over a wood or whalebone-skeleton frame.

Comparing literature

Fitzhugh, William W. & Aron Cromwell, Crossroads of Continents, Baltimore 1988, p. 158 f.