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...

Brazilian Boats & Canoes is a great blog, featuring articles on (currently) more than 30 different boat types in use throughout Braz...

Some 600 Brazilian Indians from 29 ethnic groups competed in sporting events in the tenth edition of the Indigenous Nations' Games in...

Here's a video (a slide show, really) with lots of good images of the Brazilian fishing craft known as a jangada . The soundtrack is a...

Sad times in Brazil, with firm evidence of the Airbus crash just emerging. But Brazilian correspondent Silvio Antunha sends information abou...

Here's a real beauty of a Brazilian monoxylon (hah! an expert's Latin-based jargon for a dugout, translating as "one tree"...

It will come as no surprise that the traditional Brazilian dugout is fading in popularity – like most indigenous boats (indeed, like much in...

I received much great information on Brazilian dugouts from reader Silvio Antunha. I hope to cover this over several posts, but we’ll start ...

I'd like to steer your attention to interesting comments recently posted by readers: Regarding the enormous size of dugout canoes observ...