Indigenous Boats

Historic photo of a woman delivering milk to the local dairy in a haabjas. ( Source ). Logboats remained in common use in Estonia later than...

 An intriguing experiment is under way to investigate how Russians in the 19th century (and probably earlier) took steps to expand logboats ...

Fans for watercraft ethnography would do well to visit Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology . Artefacts on disp...

(Click image to watch video on YouTube) I gave this presentation on the theme of migration on  25 September, 2024,  as part of the observanc...

A Taiwanese fishing raft of bamboo construction (Han-po Liu, 1963, fig. 37). Fishing Sampans in Taiwan by Han-po Liu (1963), a wonderful li...