Indigenous Boats

The Politics of the Canoe , edited by Bruce Erickson and Sarah Wylie Krotz, is a book of a different sort than that from which I normally ob...

There are strong but superficial similarities between  The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia , a new book by Harri Luukkanen an...

Logboats are probably the best-known Amerindian watercraft in Guyana, but another boat type in common use – at least into the first half ...

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 ...

A couple of trips to small museums in Maine yielded two nice boats: a bark canoe and a skin-of-frame kayak. It's almost like a snapshot...

Although founded in the early 20th century, the L.C. Bates Museum, in Hinckley, Maine, is a throwback to an even earlier time, when many mu...

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