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A preserved canoe in the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian was excavated from the Hackensack River by Frank Speck, [14] and the institution also has a Lenape-attributed canoe paddle from Burlington County, New Jersey. [15] The Bergen County Historical Society also claims to have an indigenous canoe from the Hackensack area. [16]
In 1937 Betty Lowman Carey became the first white woman to row single-handed the Inside Passage of British Columbia in a dugout canoe.. In 1978 Geordie Tocher and two companions sailed a 3½ ton, 40 foot (12 metre) dugout canoe (the Orenda II), made of Douglas Fir, and based on Haida designs (but with sails), from Vancouver, Canada to Hawaii to add credibility to stories that the Haida had ...
State archaeologists and volunteers removed an ancient native American dugout canoe from Lake Munson on Nov. 29, 2010. The canoe was exposed during a drawdown of the lake. Florida has uncovered ...
A dugout canoe or simply dugout is a boat made from a hollowed-out tree. Other names for this type of boat are logboat and monoxylon. Monoxylon (μονόξυλον) (pl: monoxyla) is Greek – mono-(single) + ξύλον xylon (tree) – and is mostly used in classic Greek texts.
The Canoe Journey emerged after years of government oppression of Indigenous cultures and sparked a renewal of traditional travel upon ancestral waters, canoe carving, sharing cultural protocols, and passing on cultural teachings to young people. The Canoe Journeys for 2020 and 2021 were canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many families ...
Experts at the local historical society – which recovered a 1,200-year-old dugout canoe in November 2021 – thought it was a joke, Channel 3000 reported. It wasn’t. It wasn’t.
The California State Indian Museum is a museum in the state park system of California, United States, interpreting the diverse cultures of the Indigenous peoples of California. It is located in Midtown Sacramento at 2618 K Street. [2] The museum exhibits traditional items illustrating the varying cultures of the state's first inhabitants. [2]
The Calusa (/ k ə ˈ l uː s ə / kə-LOO-sə, Calusa: *ka(ra)luš(i) [1]) were a Native American people of Florida's southwest coast. Calusa society developed from that of archaic peoples of the Everglades region. Previous indigenous cultures had lived in the area for thousands of years.