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Showing posts with label dugouts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dugouts. Show all posts
Saturday, May 23, 2026

Free Download: British Naval Intelligence Guide to Watercraft of Burma, Malaya and Siam

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Leg-paddling a dugout canoe on Lake Inle, Burma (i.e., Myanmar) (source: Fishing and Trading Craft of Burma, Malaya and Siam , 1944, fig. 42...
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Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Logboat Building in Estonia

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Historic photo of a woman delivering milk to the local dairy in a haabjas. ( Source ). Logboats remained in common use in Estonia later than...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Expanding a Logboat While the Tree is Still Growing

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 An intriguing experiment is under way to investigate how Russians in the 19th century (and probably earlier) took steps to expand logboats ...
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Watercraft at Cambridge (UK) Anthropology Museum

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Fans for watercraft ethnography would do well to visit Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology . Artefacts on disp...
Friday, October 11, 2024

Canoes as Agents of Migration in Guyana

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(Click image to watch video on YouTube) I gave this presentation on the theme of migration on  25 September, 2024,  as part of the observanc...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Book Review: The Politics of the Canoe, Bruce Erickson and Sarah Wylie Krotz (editors)

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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...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

The Survival of the Log Canoe

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Persistence of Logboats in Latin America: a framework to assess prospects of survival (This essay is slightly modified from one written fo...