Indigenous Boats

This short video clip, filmed in 1948 in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia, shows a few of the steps of building a bark canoe and ...

Reader Geoff Cater steered me toward his fine summary page of indigenous Australian watercraft where, along with excellent images of vari...

The bark canoes of the Australian Aborigines of the Murray River were among the simplest true boats ever built. Even so, they played an imp...

A few weeks ago I presented material from Edwin Doran on the bark canoes of Australia. I can now elaborate on that a bit, based on images fr...

A few weeks back I wrote about the bark canoes of Australia's Arafura Swamp , noting that the design was unique to that area. Bark canoe...

The 2006 movie Ten Canoes by Rolf de Heer is a mesmerizing look at the pre-European-contact culture of Australia and well worth viewing eve...

A good friend gave me a copy of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies for Christm...