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Inuhuit. Modell Kajak, of the Western North Greenland region.
According of "Ajuk called boat the Austrian Edi Hans Pawlata developed the boat 1926 on the model of this Greenland Eskimokajaks. He called it a "pure-bodied" kayak. In the summer of 1927, with this boat, he developed the "Eskimorolle" as the first European, the technique of rebuilding after a capsizing.
By the revival of the old Eskimo technique by a European, this boat type became very famous. In the 1930s models of this boat were first produced as models, because with this type of boat the enthnological discovery of an important, life-threatening seafaring technique of the Inuhuit by a European was practically reproduced.
Detailed model of the well-known kayak type using the original components such as fish bones and skin and seal skin.
vgl. Hugo Schmidts "Das Kajak " (1926)
Length: 91 cm
Weight:
400 g
900 - 1.200,- Euro
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photo: tribalartforum.com/ identification no. DSC03723.jpg

Inuhuit Kajak, source: smithsonian
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