Lothrop, S. K. (Samuel Kirkland), 1892-1965, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 172
146 INDIANS OF TIERRA DEL FUEGO In outline the dugout canoes resembled their bark prototypes, modified by the material of which they were wrought. Thus, through ineptitude or a fault in the wood, one end sometimes was not pointed but was cut off square. Into the opening a tail-board w^as then… … porary masts Fig. 74.- (Courtesy of -Modern Yahgan boat. and could be J. L. Weld, Esq.) employed only when running before the wind. The Yahgan bark canoe has gone entirely out of use today, and the writer was unable to discover an Indian competent to make one properly, although models can yet be…
Fuegians · Ona Indians · Yahgan Indians · Ona language · Yahgan language
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