Hi Bagge.
Did you get any more Info on your canoe cups Captaincrash seem to know his stuff all right.
Did you get any more Info on your canoe cups Captaincrash seem to know his stuff all right.
Canoe cups
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Comments from various forums re canoe cups/noggins
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There is a facinating read at the link below, including a photo of a 200 year old canoe cup that looks very like a shallow kuksa
http://webapps8.dnr.state.mn.us/mcv_pdf/articles/9_200-Year-Old_Canoe_Cup_Recovered.pdf
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A couple of comments on canoe cups: A canoe cup was not so much for drinking as for food. A voyageur could easily get water, especially enroute, from the underside of his paddle. Take your paddle out of the water, and hold it at a 45 degree angle, blade vertical. Put your mouth against the underside of the blade and it will fill with water (at first, you may try to place the wrong side of your mouth against the paddle).
Voyageurs were either Mangers du Lard (pork eaters) or Hivernants (winterers). The Hivernants plied the "upper country" north and west of the Grand Portage. They used the Canot du Nord (about 24 foot canoes) and seldom returned to civilization. The Mangers du Lard paddled the Maitre canoes (about 36 foot) between Montreal and the Grand Portage (present day NE Minnesota).
Many of the original canoe cups were copies of the Ojibwe naagan – cross between a spoon and a bowl.
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Here is a youtube video about the "coupe du voyageur" or Voyageur cup.......with a bit of a history lesson to go along with stages of carving. Also did you search "noggin" when you looked for info?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPKn6Jue2H4
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They were basically carved by the paddlers along the way and came in all manner of sizes and styles, personalised by them selves some had carvings and patterns on etc, they were used to scoop water on the run and receive their Rum Ration in the evenings as far as I know
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Comments from various forums re canoe cups/noggins
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There is a facinating read at the link below, including a photo of a 200 year old canoe cup that looks very like a shallow kuksa
http://webapps8.dnr.state.mn.us/mcv_pdf/articles/9_200-Year-Old_Canoe_Cup_Recovered.pdf
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A couple of comments on canoe cups: A canoe cup was not so much for drinking as for food. A voyageur could easily get water, especially enroute, from the underside of his paddle. Take your paddle out of the water, and hold it at a 45 degree angle, blade vertical. Put your mouth against the underside of the blade and it will fill with water (at first, you may try to place the wrong side of your mouth against the paddle).
Voyageurs were either Mangers du Lard (pork eaters) or Hivernants (winterers). The Hivernants plied the "upper country" north and west of the Grand Portage. They used the Canot du Nord (about 24 foot canoes) and seldom returned to civilization. The Mangers du Lard paddled the Maitre canoes (about 36 foot) between Montreal and the Grand Portage (present day NE Minnesota).
Many of the original canoe cups were copies of the Ojibwe naagan – cross between a spoon and a bowl.
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Here is a youtube video about the "coupe du voyageur" or Voyageur cup.......with a bit of a history lesson to go along with stages of carving. Also did you search "noggin" when you looked for info?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPKn6Jue2H4
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They were basically carved by the paddlers along the way and came in all manner of sizes and styles, personalised by them selves some had carvings and patterns on etc, they were used to scoop water on the run and receive their Rum Ration in the evenings as far as I know
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Lovely work Mark, truly admirable.
And as already as been said, stunning job the photography too, what is the key to getting such a clean shot?
And as already as been said, stunning job the photography too, what is the key to getting such a clean shot?
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