Indigenous Boats

This is the final post about a current exhibit of boat models and canoe paddles at the Vatican Museums. Previous posts about this exhibi...

  My usual approach to using reading material for this blog is to take some interesting (to me) facts that I read concerning some kind ...

The Inuit people of Alaska's west and northwest coasts -- from Nome to Point Barrow -- hunted whales in umiaks from 1,800 BCE to well i...

Let's look at more maritime-related dioramas at Harvard University's   Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology , these depictin...

Let's look at more Aleut and other Alaskan Eskimo maritime and related cultural items at Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Arc...