Asmat Spirit Canoe

Our previous post featured a large dugout canoe from New Guinea's Asmat culture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. That one was ceremon...

Asmat Dugout Canoe at the Met

In December I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and saw a wonderful display of art and crafts from New Guinea. We'...

Hōkūleʻa in Bar Harbor, Maine

Hokule'a off Oahu. (Photo: Polynesian Voyaging Society ) Hōkūleʻa   is a Hawaiian voyaging canoe in the midst of a multi-year voyage aro...

Bark Canoes in Arnhem Land, Australia

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...

Canoe Paddle from Rio Beni

Paddle from Beni River, obverse This wonderful paddle, in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History , is from the Beni River...

More Old Quffa Photos

In response to our recent post on the Mesopotamian quffa , Harvey Golden sent us these scans of old stereoscope photos in his possession. (H...

Vietnamese Coracles

" Coracle fishing boats at Mui Ne Bay , Vietnam " by  Ray Zhoul (Click any image to enlarge.) Vietnam is the only land where corac...