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Pirogues of Madagascar Pirogues, Niger A pirogue on the Niger River in Mali Statuette Karajà - Brazil - MHNT. A pirogue (/ p ɪ ˈ r oʊ ɡ / or / ˈ p iː r oʊ ɡ /), [1] also called a piragua or piraga, is any of various small boats, particularly dugouts and canoes. The word is French and is derived from Spanish piragua [piˈɾaɣwa], which ...
One of the canoes displayed in the Carnavalet Museum Dugout canoe displayed in the Carnavalet Museum. The Pirogues de Bercy are a group of dugout canoes (or fragments of canoes) dating from the Neolithic period that were discovered in 1989 during construction work in the 12th arrondissement, a neighbourhood located in southeastern Paris.
Rasstegai ("unbuttoned pirog"), a type of Russian pirog with a hole in the top; [10] Shanga , a small or medium-size open-faced circular savory pirog endemic to and widespread in Ural and Siberia ; [ 11 ] "Shanga is a bakery product made of unleavened or yeast, wheat, rye or rye-wheat dough.
Karelian pasties made in Vaivio, Liperi Karelian pasties, Karelian pies or Karelian pirogs (Karelian: kalitat, singular kalitta; Olonets Karelian: šipainiekku; Finnish: karjalanpiirakat, singular karjalanpiirakka [ˈkɑrjɑlɑnˌpiːrɑkːɑ]; [1] or Swedish: karelska piroger) are traditional Finnish pasties or pirogs originating from the region of Karelia.
Some, but not all, pirogues are also constructed in this manner. Dugouts are the oldest boat type archaeologists have found, dating back about 8,000 years to the Neolithic Stone Age . [ 1 ] This is probably because they are made of massive pieces of wood, which tend to preserve better than others, such as bark canoes .
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By the 18th century the term periagua was being applied to flat-bottomed boats, which could be 30 feet (10 m) or more long and carry up to 30 men, with one or two masts, which could also be rowed. Later in the 18th century periagua became the name for a specific type of sailing rig, with gaff rigged sails on two masts that could be easily ...