Word: gum
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Gum Club will hold a series of interclass shoots this spring. Teams of three men will be selected from each of the classes by a system of trial shoots and by the previous work of the year. In the final series the Seniors will contest with the Juniors and the Sophomores with the Freshmen, each man shooting at fifty birds thrown from a Magaur trap. The two teams winning the preliminary shoots will contest for the championship in three matches. Members of the championship team will be given cups...
...complete in every detail, was made at the request of Dr. Agassiz; it is the model of a large Fiji outrigger working canoe, and is distinguished from a war canoe by the fact that the latter is made double instead of with an outrigger. The boat is caulked with gum, which is protected by strips of palm, and the various portions of the hull are fastened together by ropes of cocoanut fibre. All the cordage is made of this same fibre. The large lateen sail is made of strips of pandanas leaf, sewed together with narrow strips of the same...
...stove, which is very old, is made of terra cotta glazed with gum, and is probably the only one of its kind in this country. When in use, it was set on a bed of sand, on the deck of a canoe, and then heated for cooking purposes. The exact method employed has not yet been determined, for the stove was broken in transportation, and the pieces have not yet been fitted together...