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For big opinion please on the picture clicks.
Westgreenld. Kayak with
completly equippet Pict.: Copie from book: DEN GRØNLANDSKE KAJAK
OG DENS REDSKABER from P. Scavenius Jensen Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold
Busk 1975
 westgreenland
kayak with complete equipment and paddles: Picture from the ethnology-museum
Herrnhut, state Ethnographische collections Saxony. Photo S. Augustin,
length 5,65 m, width 0,45 m, hight of cockpit 0,20 m,
the boat was acquired 1899/1901 by Friedrich Hagenauer.
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Picture
on the right: Hunter with catch returning home. The equipment: Harpoons
on the foredeck, line rack, harpoon head in the middle, hunting
float on the aft deck.
Picture: Jette Bang 1936, : Dansk Polar Center…
Picture above: Silhouette by the Inuit artist Henri Napartuk Great
Whale River, Canada 1978 |
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Both pictures from:"DEN GRØNLANDSKE KAJAK OG DENS REDSKABER", from
P.Scavenius Jensen Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck, 1975 (Large
picture: Harpoon Principle)
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Preparations
to throw the harpoon with the throwing board. The harpoon has been
thrown, the kayaker holds the throwing board in his hand whilst
the harpoon is flying to the victim. Usually the harpoon is connected
to the hunting float which is placed on the stern of he kayak. Throwing
distance 20 m maximum. Picture above and to the right: Henrik Deichmann
1906. Both pictures: Dansk Polar Center |
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Pict. top: line rack, Kopie aus DEN GRØLANDSKE KAJAK OG DENS
REDSKABER von P. Scavenius Jensen Nyt Nordisk Verlag 1976. No line
rack because a gun is used (see in front) Picture: Jette Bang 1938,
Aufnahme Dansk Polar Center. |
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Based on the saying that „an almost hit is no hit“
the bird dart was equipped with bearded hooks which were supposed
to hook into the feathers of the bird and thereby ensure the success.
Picture from: DEN GRØNLANDSKE KAJAK OG DENS REDSKABER" von P.Scavenius
Jensen Nyt Nordisk Forlag, 1975"
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/Large Picture:
Picture to the left: Different throwing boards. Copy from
"DEN GRØNLANDSKE KAJAK OG DENS REDSkABER" von P. Scavenius Jensen
Nyt Nordisk Forlag 1975 |
Picture Entering of the harpoon head into the animal and hooking into
it due to the pull of the fleeing animal. The harpoon was thrown from
a distance up to 20 m. Copy from: Brockhaus, Biosphäre Bd. 8, 2005
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The shooting
screen was used to protect the hunter from being seen by the targeted
animal. When approaching the target the hunter bent forward. The seal
took the shooting screen for an ice float. Copy from the book: "DEN
GRØNLANDSKE KAJAK OG DENS REDSkABER" from P. Scavenius Jensen Nyt
Nordisk Forlag 1975 |
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Kayaker using a shooting
screen model C. The shooting screen may be used either side or may
even be folded. Note wind direction and positioning of the screen.
Photo: Marius Nyeboe 1900
Picture: Dansk Polar Center |
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