Indigenous Boats

Illa-Tiki , John Haslett's first raft (top), hoisted a single squaresail on a bipod mast. It was intended for a pure downwind drift...

As the final installment in the series,  let's look now at boat-related exhibits of Northeastern American Indian cultures at  Harvard...

This post, the fifth in a series on exhibits at Harvard University's   Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology ,  highlights more...

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

In our most recent posts, which looked at the cultural background of the Chumash tomol and at tomol construction , both referred to...

A Chumash tomol . Painting by Robert Thomas. Click any image to enlarge. In our previous post, we looked at social and economic a...

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

A couple years ago , I noted briefly the discovery of a 230-year-old Canadian birchbark canoe, believed to be the oldest surviving examp...

Of course the title of this post is meant as a malapropism, but John Lindman of the Bark Canoe Store comes as close as anyone to making an...

This video by Canada's National Film Board is familiar to many bark canoe aficionados. For those not familiar with it: it's a well...