spot the Morris

[Andre Cloutier]

Wow what a graceful shape. Really stands out against early Peterboroughs, even with upswept gunwales and plumb stems. Just happy to be among lakes and trees again - not even the move is stressing me out.

 

[Kathryn Klos]

Morris spottings...

I like looking at postcards and pictures of canoes on eBay and trying to figure out the builder. Below is a recent eBay listing... there were several pictures, taken at what appears to be a scout camp, and the canoes appear to be Morris-built to me.

 

[Andre Cloutier]

Thanks Kathy!!

Friday nite, snowing, long day after a long week and the trip to the dreaded mail box yields not bills but 3 back issues of wooden boat with Morris articles.
Thanks Kathy, generosity like yours will keep this site and organization thriving. Square up with you at assembly for the postage

 

[Kathryn Klos]

Hey, no problem, Andre-- glad we'll be seeing you at Assembly-- that's payment enough!

Kathy

 

[Kathryn Klos]

Another eBay picture...

This picture is listed as "Indians paddling a canoe".... which may be true, but the whole thing is terribly wrong. First of all, the game is "Spot the Morris"... and if we are being authentic in regard to Native Americans and canoes, we shouldn't be spotting a possible Morris... nor should we be spotting the feathered headdresses of plains Indians.

Or, are these a couple chiefs from the plains, who took a trip to Maine and found a livery there?

 

[Benson Gray]

the whole thing is terribly wrong

You might enjoy reading "Molly Spotted Elk, A Penobscot in Paris" by Bunny McBride if you want to learn about what some Penobscots did in the early 1900s besides make canoes. The caption to the picture on page 38 says "Indian Island girls and women dressed for pagent, circa 1917 - before the diffusion of Plains-style pan Indian costumery and culture spawned by the motion picture industry. The peaked cap of the elderly woman in the front row is traditional among Wabanaki peoples, dating back to the seventeenth century." I'll now yield the soap box to the next speaker,

Benson

 

[Fitz]

Google

Google has the book Benson referenced on line if you need some early spring reading.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Et...cot+in+Paris&ei=XNenSfeUDpnKMJj40IQO#PPA38,M1