Dugout canoe
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A dugout canoe or simply dugout is a boat made from a hollowed-out tree. Other names for this type of boat are logboat and monoxylon. Monoxylon is Greek – mono- + ξύλον xylon – and is mostly used in c
Dugouts on the shore of Lake Malawi
Building a seagoing dugout. The sides have likely been heated and bent outward.
Remains of an 8000-year-old dugout excavated in China
Fisherman in Kondakarla Ava
Canoe
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A canoe is a lightweight, narrow watercraft, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel and using paddles.
Dugout canoe
…to the Neolithic Stone Age. This is probably because they are made of massive pieces of wood, which tend to preserve better than others, such as bark canoes. Construction of a dugout begins with the selection of a log of suitable dimensions. Sufficient wood must be removed to make the vessel relatively light…
A B.N. Morris Canoe Company wood-and-canvas canoe built approximately 1912
Birch bark canoe at Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine
Frances Anne Hopkins: Shooting the Rapids (Quebec) (1879), Voyageur canoe
Dugout canoe of pirogue type in the Solomon Islands