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Ethnographic Sketches Adney Paddles

Stumbled on the marvelously illustrated site of Aldo & Corrado Cherini. They've collected loads of sketched images representing various enthographic marine vessels from around the globe. Their North American Gallery showcases images of bark canoes. Most of the sketches are remakes of Adney & Chappelle's Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America which is now freely available online at Gutenberg.org (see post about that here). Still it is nice to peruse their galleries and see their sketched paddle artwork like the samples below...