Chine bLog » canoe paddle http://www.chineblog.com Messing about in wooden, traditional, and tradition-inspired boats Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:55:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 “Paddle Making (and other canoe stuff)” – a nice-looking blog http://www.chineblog.com/2009/12/paddle-making-and-other-canoe-stuff-a-nice-looking-blog/ http://www.chineblog.com/2009/12/paddle-making-and-other-canoe-stuff-a-nice-looking-blog/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:52:45 +0000 Tim Shaw http://www.chineblog.com/?p=917 Thanks to Bob over at Indigenous Boats for his recent post highlighting Paddle Making (and other canoe stuff), a blog by a Canadian canoeist / paddlemaker / artist named Murat. The site has a gallery tool to view paddles Murat has made – they are almost universally stunning. Well worth keeping this one [...] Related posts:
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Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.chineblog.com/2009/04/more-new-stuff-at-the-national-museum-of-the-american-indian/feed/ 1 Skin-on-frame boat treat – Inuit kayak and Ojibwe birch bark canoe http://www.chineblog.com/2008/12/skin-on-frame-boat-treat-inuit-kayak-and-ojibwe-birch-bark-canoe/ http://www.chineblog.com/2008/12/skin-on-frame-boat-treat-inuit-kayak-and-ojibwe-birch-bark-canoe/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:19:47 +0000 Tim Shaw http://www.chineblog.com/archives/324-guid.html I was able to get in a quick peek at the National Museum of the American Indian, which keeps a few traditional boats in its rotunda. I have written about the semi-traditional Inuit kayak before, but I didn’t have a shot of the completed boat. Here she is.

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