"In My Tippy Canoe"
From Chapter 5: Wood-and-Canvas Canoes
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From Chapter 5: Wood-and-Canvas Canoes
"In My Tippy Canoe." Music and lyrics by Fred Fisher. Recorded June 7, 1921 in New York
From Foreword
Winslow Homer, Canoe in Rapids, 1897. Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper, 35.4 × 53.3 cm (13 15/16 × 21 in).
From Introduction
Canoeists paddling a Wenonah Kevlar canoe above a rapids in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
From Introduction
Photograph by H. H. Bennett, canoeists in a birch-bark canoe near Steamboat Rock, Wisconsin Dells.
From Introduction
Sigurd Olson’s Border Lakes Outfitting Company, April 4, 1940.
From Introduction
Francis Lee Jaques, Picture Rock at Crooked Lake (Return of the Voyageur), 1947. Oil on canvas, 83.8 x 106.6 cm.
From Introduction
Myron Nickerson, a former employee of J. Henry Rushton appears on the far right in this 1894 photograph.
From Introduction
Map of Maine’s Moosehead Lake and the headwaters of the Aroostook and Penobscot Rivers, drawn in 1880 by W. R. Curtis.
From Introduction
Mark Hamel, Crossing the Shallows, Snake River, 2014. Oil on mounted linen, 40.64 × 50.8 cm.
From Introduction
Two paddlers are photographed in 1952 at Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. Photograph by Gar Lunney, National Film Board of Canada Collection, Library and Archives of Canada, R1196-14-7-E.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Lee Moorhouse, Log canoe on the Columbia River, ca. 1900.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Woodcut illustration of a Taino dugout canoe, Girolamo Benzoni’s La Historia del Mondo Nuovo, 1562.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Florida dugout canoe and typical Timucua houses, 1591, engraving by Theodor de Bry after Jacques Le Moyne.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Contemporary dugout photographed at Playa de San Mateo del Mar near Oaxaca, Mexico.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Inscriptions on bone from the Late Classic Era Mayan burial site at Tikal (ca. 800–ca. 1000 CE), redrawn by Linda Schele, artist and Mesoamerican scholar.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Fresco featuring Putun dugout canoes, interior walls of the Temple of the Warriors, Chichen Itza.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Map of Caribbean.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Drawing by John White (~1585–1593), inscribed The manner of their fishing and A Cannow.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Kryn Frederycks woodcut titled T’ Fort Nieuw Amsterdam op de Manhatans, ca. 1626.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
The oyster industry of the East Coast relied on dugout canoes to navigate the rivers of Connecticut during the nineteenth century. This photograph dates to 1872 and depicts a dugout next to an oyster house near New Haven.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Archeologists examine a dugout canoe found during a drought in 2000 at Newnans Lake, Florida.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
John Webber, Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Capt. Cook.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Dugout canoes line the beach at Songhees Reserve in Victoria, British Columbia, 1868.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Sea otter engraving, 1780.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
A Kwakiutl family navigating the waters of Quatsino Sound.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
British botanist and ethnographer Charles F. Newcombe photographed this newly hewn Haida dugout canoe at the village of Kasaan, Alaska, along the Northwest Coast, c. 1900.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Three cedar canoes on the beach at Skidegate.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Old-growth cedar trees are immense and can provide the materials for several boats. In this photograph, four different canoes are being hewn from one red cedar log at Olympic Loop, Queets River, Washington. Photograph by Dale O. Northrup, c. 1930.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
The Manner of Makinge Their Boates, Theodor de Bry, 1590.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Bill Reid and Associates Creating a Dugout Canoe, 1985.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Haisla dugout canoe carved and painted by David Shaw in 1934, overpainted by Bill Reid in 1967.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Graham Herbert (Hornby Island, British Columbia), Sacred Escort, 1994. Watercolor on paper, 36.83 x 52.07 cm.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Edward S. Curtis, Into the Shadow, 1910. Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Woman In Canoe. Photograph from collection of Cruces y Campa Mexican Occupationals “cartes-de-visites” series, 1862–1877.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Photograph of the Hicks family of the Clallam tribe posing with a canoe near Chimacum Creek, Washington, ca. 1914.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Natives making canoe from tree trunk at Mission ca. 1900. Photograph by Alexander McLean.
From Sidebar: Napolean Sanford
Napolean Sanford
From Sidebar: Napolean Sanford
Napolean Sanford with a work in progress next to the Carib Council House in Salybia, Dominica.
From Sidebar: Napolean Sanford
Gommier trees grow to enormous size in the rain forests of Dominica.
From Sidebar: Napolean Sanford
Dugout fishing canoes on the beach in Martinique.
From Sidebar: Napolean Sanford
Napolean Sanford's Storm Petrel.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Birchbarks at Batchewang, 2012.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Contemporary birch-bark builder Erik Simula working on a bark canoe in 2009.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Erik Simula's canoe, Nama, and his dog, Kitigan, at Mountain Lake in the Arrowhead Region of Minnesota.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Solitary paddler sits in a birch-bark canoe at Moose Factory, Ontario.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Jean Antoine Theodore Gudin, Jacques Cartier Discovering the St. Lawrence River, 1847. Oil on canvas, 142 x 266 cm.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Edwin Tappan Adney's model of a Beothuk Canoe.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
The outer hulls of bark canoes were often engraved with symbols, animal silhouettes, and geometric shapes. Bark collected in the winter was purportedly better for such etchings than summer bark. Edwin Tappan Adney featured these designs on a canoe built in Old Town, Maine and exhibited at the New York Sportsman’s Show in 1897.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Birch-bark canoe from the Amur River Valley region in Russia. From Puteshestvie na Amur . . . (Expedition to the Amur), Richard Karlovich Maack, 1859.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Phyllop Peter and his wife paddle a Kutenai canoe on Kootenay Lake in 1922.