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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 ...
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.
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 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 ...
Aboriginal dugout canoes were a significant advancement in canoe technology. Dugout canoes may have been stronger, faster, and more efficient than previous types of bark canoes . The Australian Aboriginal peoples ' use of these canoes brought about many changes to both their hunting practices and society.
It is a dugout canoe discovered in 1987 by a Fulani cattle herdsman a few kilometers from the village of Dufuna in the Fune Local Government Area, not far from the Komadugu Gana River, in Yobe State, Nigeria. [1] Radiocarbon dating of a sample of charcoal found near the site dates the canoe at 8,500 to 8,000 years old, linking the site to Lake ...
Traditional lepa-lepa canoe is made from single piece of hollowed wood (dugout base). The wood can be of various sizes. They can be used with or without a sail, [1] as they can be propelled with paddles (called wosa in native language) and quant poles (doan). [1] [3] Some of them may be equipped with double outrigger. Lepa-lepa may be enlarged ...