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    Aleutian kayak (redirect from Baidarka)
    The baidarka or Aleutian kayak (Aleut: iqyax) is a watercraft consisting of soft skin (artificial or natural) over a flexible space frame. Without primarily...
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    this period, estranged from his father for some time. Dyson's first book, Baidarka, published in 1986, described his research on the history of the Aleutian...
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    maneuverability. Aleut baidarka resembles that of a Yup'ik kayak, but it is hydrodynamically sleeker and faster. They made the baidarka for one or two persons...
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    Across the Bering Strait; and a team of Californians in a three-person baidarka, led by Jim Noyes (who launched his ambitious expedition as a paraplegic)...
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    Pirogue, Shikara, Dragon boat, and Dugout Kayak, Sea kayak, Flyak, and Baidarka Coracle, Tarai-bune Paddleboard Pedals are attached to a crank and propelled...
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    In that tradition, Weld was home to the hand-carving of a traditional baidarka of the type used by Aleutian hunters. Next to the boathouse is the Anderson...
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    travelled by kayak, and thus was known as a "woman's boat". Sea kayak Baidarka Wilhelm August Graah Dall, p. 563 Umiak at the Canadian Encyclopedia Nancy...
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  • Other than contemporary versions of Inuit, Aleut, and Yup'ik kayaks and baidarkas, they are the closest relatives to the skin-and-frame boats of the past...
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    indigenous technologies are replaced, the Russians adopted the Aleut kayak, or baidarka, sea otter hunting techniques, and the working of native copper deposits...
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  • Russian-America Fort Ross Aleuts Kodiaks  United States Victory Spaniards capture baidarkas (navys) of the Russian-American Company and expel them from expanding...
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    Baidarka Nature Reserve Байдарський заказник (Ukrainian) Байдарский заказник (Russian) IUCN category IV (habitat/species management area) Show map of Sevastopol...
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    clothing, such as shoes and belts, and large skin boats sometimes called baidarkas or umiaks. Towards the end of the 19th century, bones and fossils from...
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    Olga, the brig Ekaterina, the packet boat Orel; and a fleet of some 550 baidarkas,: 25–26  carrying 700 Aleuts and 300 other natives.: 175–176  Wishing...
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    Subarctic people made many types of boats for different purposes. The Aleut baidarka was made in double or triple cockpit designs, for hunting and transporting...
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    communities. Aside from food and clothing, their skin was used to cover baidarkas and kayaks. A subsistence harvest on the order of 300 animals or less...
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    Antonio Argüello, the commandant ordered a cannon be shot at the trappers' baidarkas, dispersing the Aleut and Alutiiq trappers from the Bay. Reports from...
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    following wind. Other boat types used in Siberia include the shitik and the baidarka. Timeline of Russian inventions and technology records Knarr Raymond H...
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    Ugashik River Baidarka kayak near APA cannery, Ugashik River, 1900 Location of the mouth of Ugashik River in Alaska Location Country United States State...
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    kayaks, known in his days by the Aleut name iqyax̂ or the Russian name "baidarka". Sovoroff "...kept up the tradition of making kayak models". Model sea...
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    Russian-American Company, a major trading company. His party, including Aleut in baidarka to hunt sea otter, were met with hostility by the local Indians. Winship's...
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  • cool grasslands, especially referring to the soil of the Russian steppes. Baidarka (Russian: байда́рка, "small boat"; a diminutive form of baidar, "boat")...
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    O'Cain. RAC Chief Manager Alexander Baranov supplied O'Cain with twenty baidarkas (Aleutian kayaks) and about forty indigenous Alaskan sea otter hunters...
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    Khlebnikov stated in his "1820 Travel Notes", "Mr. Kuskov had sent two baidarkas to the Slavyanka River to catch sturgeon, and they returned today with...
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    terrible blood bath. Only a few [people] were able to flee to Angyahtalek in baidarkas; 300 Koniags were shot by the Russians. This happened in April. When our...
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    chief's hat was the equivalent to 1 to 3 slaves, which was more than a baidarka (kayak). Further spread into the Aleutian region is likely due to the whaling...
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  • under captain William Wadsworth, brought Aleuts with their kayaks and baidarkas to California to hunt sea otters along the coast of California, in 1814...
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    travelers are unanimous in stating that the Aleut in full attire and in his baidarka has a handsome and indeed a majestic appearance"(p. 275) Gronholdt's visors...
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    Baidarka kayak near APA cannery, Ugashik River, 1900...
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  • overseers to hunt California sea otters. Baranov supplied O'Cain with twenty baidarkas (Aleutian kayaks) and about forty indigenous sea otter hunters, plus two...
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    with American ships beginning in 1810, providing them with Aleuts and baidarkas (kayaks) to hunt otter on the coast of Spanish California. From 1810 to...
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