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Volume 9: Transportation and Communications

Arctic Skin Boats

Fig. 1. Small Umiak for Walrus Hunting W. Coast of Alaska, 1889
Fig. 2. Umiak, West Coast of Alaska 1886
Fig. 3. Whaling Umiak, North Coast of Alaska
Fig. 4. Umiak Hudson Straits 1885
Fig. 5. Umiak East Greenland
Fig. 6. Koryak Kayak Am. Museum of Natural History
Fig. 7. Kodiak Island Kayak, 1885
Fig. 8. Aleutian Kayak, Unalaska, 1894 U.S. National Museum Original in fair condition
Fig. 5. Nunivak Island Kayak, 1889 U.S. National Museum-Original in good condition
Fig. 10. King Island Kayak, 1888 U.S. National Museum Original in very good condition
Fig. 12. Kotzebue Sound Kayak U.S. National Museum (now in the Mariners' Museum)
Fig. 11. Norton Sound Kayak, 1889 U.S. National Museum Original in very good condition
Fig. 13. Point Barrow Kayak 1888 U.S. National Museum Original in good condition
Fig. 14. MacKenzie Delta Kayak Museum of the American Indian
Fig. 15. MacKenzie River Kayak, 1885 U.S. National Museum Kayak in good condition
Fig. 16. Coronation gulf Kayak Partially reconstructed from damaged kayak
Fig. 17. Caribou Eskimo Kayak (Condition fair)
Fig. 18. King William Island kayak American Museum of Natural History Condition of kayak - poor
Fig. 19. Old Kayak from vicinity of Southampton Island Kayak much damaged
Fig. 20. Baffin Island Kayak, from Cape Dorset Museum of the American Indian Kayak distorted slightly
Fig. 21. North Labrador Kayak Museum of the American Indian Condition fair
Fig. 22. Labrador Kayak U.S. National Museum Kayak in poor condition
Fig. 23. North Greenland Kayak Museum of the American Indian Kayak in good condition
Fig. 24. North Greenland Kayak Peabody Museum of Salem, Mass. Taken off by the late Norman L. Skene, 1921
Fig. 25. N.W. Greenland Kayak U.S. National Museum Kayak in good condition
Fig. 26. S.W. Greenland Kayak 1883 U.S. National Museum
Fig. 27. S.W. Greenland Kayak Peabody Museum of Salem, Mass. Taken off by the late Norman L. Skene 1921 Kayak in good condition
Fig. 28. S. Greenland Kayak American Museum of Natural History Condition of kayak very good

Arctic Pioneer Craft

Wooden Freight Canoe, 1901; Bateau or Drive-boat
A York Boat, 1864
Scow; Sturgeon Head
North Canoe 1851; Light Canoe

Past and Present Coast Guard Vessels for the Arctic

[U.S.R.C. Thetis]
In board profile U.S.R.C. "Thetis" Thiele
[U.S.R.C. Thetis]
Mid ship Section U.S.R.C. "Thetis" Thiele
[U.S.R.C. Thetis]
[U.S.R.C. Thetis]
Midship Section U.S.C.G.C. "Northland" Thiele
[U.S.C.G.C. Northland]
Inboard profile U.S.C.G.C. "East wind" Thiele
[U.S.C.G.C. Eastwind]
Midship Section U.S.C.G.C. "East Wind"