The Scottish Kayaks and the ‘Finn-men’

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1745-1744|28|110|99-104

ISSN: 0003-598x

Source: Antiquity, Vol.28, Iss.110, 1954-06, pp. : 99-104

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Abstract

Among the more obscure aspects of polar research the problem of the appearance off Scotland of kayaks of Eskimo type is one of the most formidable. A These craft, one of which has certainly survived, normally become waterlogged after about forty-eight hours in the water. How then were they brought to the British Isles, and by whom?