Friday, October 3, 2014

Fire Good? Fire Bad? and, Whatever Happened to Pyrodiversity

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I recently bought a book called California Indians and Their Environment. California Indians unlike most of the other Indians in what is ...

California Drought

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California is in the third year of a drought.  I report on this only because I live in California.  I like where I live right now because as...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

Single Bladed Paddles Get a Tank Test

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I've been working on a bunch of single bladed paddles for a number of reasons.  The first is that I was making a single bladed paddle bl...

Chairs, Skin on Frame and Lashed

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One of my readers sent me some photos of chairs made in Mexico by traditional means. Full view of the chair. Lashed construction hold...
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Thursday, August 14, 2014

Qaqamiiĝux̂: Traditional Foods and Recipes from the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands, A Review

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I got my copy of Qaqamiiĝux̂ in the mail the other day.  I was expecting a smaller book for some reason.  As it turned out, the book is ...
Friday, August 1, 2014

Qaqamiiĝux̂: Traditional Foods and Recipes from the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands

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The APIA (Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association) has published a new book on traditional Unangan foods.  I ordered the book but haven...

Unangan Single Bladed Paddle to Double Conversion and Back Again

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When I first saw this picture of a double bladed paddle, I thought it was a new Aleut type.  And so I made a copy of it.  As it turned out, ...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

Pipe-Smoking Sailors & Explorers

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I ran into a picture somewhere of a traditional kayaker with a pipe in his mouth.  Then I ran into other pictures of pipe_smoking mariners. ...
Friday, June 20, 2014

The Shape of the Unangan (Aleut) Kayak

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Unangan and to a slightly lesser extent, Alutiiq kayaks are distinct from the kayaks of other regions in that they are a good deal more f...
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Friday, June 13, 2014

Unangan (Aleut) Paddle Orientation Revisited

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I already have two posts on how Unangan paddlers held their paddles.  To read them, type paddle orientation into the blogger search box on t...
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Friday, June 6, 2014

Captain Cook and his Expedition Artist John Webber visit Alasks and British Columbia

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I got two replicas of John Webber prints.  I thought that they might maybe be actual Webber prints but it turned out that they weren't...
Friday, April 11, 2014

El Toro Trailer, Updated

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You probably don't remember but a while back, I did a posting on kayak trailers that could be towed behind a bicycle.  The tow bar on th...

Desert Storm Tan Repaint

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Over the last few years I have been painting the skins of my skin on frame boats with polyurethane varnish.  The varnish has UV blockers in ...
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Basic Technology by Michael Wolf

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Michael Wolf is a photographer working out of Hong Kong and possibly other cities.  A while back I ran into his photos of what he called ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Eastern Arctic-Like Kayak, Performance Report

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I finally did it. Finished the EA kayak with some deviations from the traditional norm, painted it and headed out to the water to see how it...
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