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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.
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]
About 3,000 years ago, indigenous people of the Ho Chunk Nation in the Lake Mendota region carved a dugout canoe, the Wisconsin Historical Society said in a news release on Thursday, Sept. 22. A ...
In some early dugout canoes, Aboriginal people would not make the bottoms of the canoes smooth, but would instead carve "ribbing" into the vessel. Ribbing (literally sections of wood that looked like ribs) was used to stabilize bark canoes, and though not necessary to dugout canoes, was a carryover in the transition from one canoe type to the ...
Depiction of an Ohlone family in a dugout canoe on the San Francisco Bay. (c. 1870's; Charles Christian Nahl) In the northwest coast of California near the redwood forests several Indian tribes developed large dugout canoes they used for fishing, trade and warfare. These canoes were constructed by taking a large tree and shaping it with hand ...
11 ancient canoes were discovered buried in a Wisconsin lake, the oldest dating back 4,500 years ago. The range ages of these canoes may signify they were stored during winters, possibly ...