Indigenous Boats

  My usual approach to using reading material for this blog is to take some interesting (to me) facts that I read concerning some kind ...

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...

Let's look at more Aleut and other Alaskan Eskimo maritime and related cultural items at Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Arc...

Here's a look at a display of Alaskan, and specifically Aleut, items at Harvard's   Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology . (...

This is the first of several planned posts featuring boat-related displays at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard ...