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Bark Canoes:The Art and Obsession of Tappan Adney
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Tappan Adney circa 1890

Edwin Tappan Adney (1868–1950), an American-born naturalist who lived most of his life in Canada, researched, designed and built an unparalleled set of less-than-full-size bark canoe models, 110 of which he and sold to the Mariner’s Museum in Newport News, Virginia. Jennings (The Canoe: A Living Tradition) is the first author to present that collection, which has been photographed for this volume by John Pemberton. The images show an impressive variation on the genre: there are plain-looking dugout canoes and elaborately decorated Iroquois models. Jennings consulted Adney’s papers extensively for this volume with the result that the book also doubles as a description of the boat maker’s life and methods. Most of the chapters are organized by geographic zone ("East Coast"; "Northwest") or by purpose ("Fur Trade"), though one chapter is devoted to close-range details. From a "Mailseet Birchbark Canoe with Shoes" to a "Tetes de Boule One-Man Birchbark Hunter’s Canoe," spare layout, carefully angled and focused pictures, and detailed provenances mark each entry.

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