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Jangadas from Wikipedia via Indigenous Boats

Many thanks to our friend Bob Holtzman over at Indigenous Boats for his nice posts on Brazilian Jangadas, traditional craft from Northeastern Brazil. I encourage you to read both: one and two. I am digging this blog – great substance here:

It is a sailing raft built of [...]

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More from Rare – traditional dugout canoes for Honduran ecotourism

My new client, Rare, who had a project I blogged about recently, has redone their web site and now includes, among many other nice features, some nice photos from its work supporting an ecotourism venture in Honduras. Such work is always exciting because it tends to be such a win-win-win-etc. proposition. One highlight [...]

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Andean reed boats – ingenious AND lovely

We recently went over to The National Museum of the American Indian again (nice having the place so close) and in the big, main foyer, where recreations of native watercraft are on display, I found this boat, a miniature version of a reed boat used by the people who lived around Lake Titicaca in Bolivia [...]

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