Indigenous Boats

A tomol replica built in 1976. Source: Chumash Maritime Organization . (Click any image to enlarge.) The Chumash were a North Ame...

Songhai stitched boat. Bow is to the left. (Click any image to enlarge.) Living in the semiarid Sahel region south of the Sahara Desert...

Rounding out a nice big batch of photos from the Indian state of Kerala, here are a couple of sizable stitch-planked houseboats, and a clas...