Shooting the Rapids
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Canoeists paddling a Wenonah Kevlar canoe above a rapids in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
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Photograph by H. H. Bennett, canoeists in a birch-bark canoe near Steamboat Rock, Wisconsin Dells.
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Sigurd Olson’s Border Lakes Outfitting Company, April 4, 1940.
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Myron Nickerson, a former employee of J. Henry Rushton appears on the far right in this 1894 photograph.
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Two paddlers are photographed in 1952 at Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. Photograph by Gar Lunney, National Film Board of Canada Collection, Library and Archives of Canada, R1196-14-7-E.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Lee Moorhouse, Log canoe on the Columbia River, ca. 1900.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Contemporary dugout photographed at Playa de San Mateo del Mar near Oaxaca, Mexico.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
The oyster industry of the East Coast relied on dugout canoes to navigate the rivers of Connecticut during the nineteenth century. This photograph dates to 1872 and depicts a dugout next to an oyster house near New Haven.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Archeologists examine a dugout canoe found during a drought in 2000 at Newnans Lake, Florida.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Dugout canoes line the beach at Songhees Reserve in Victoria, British Columbia, 1868.
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A Kwakiutl family navigating the waters of Quatsino Sound.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
British botanist and ethnographer Charles F. Newcombe photographed this newly hewn Haida dugout canoe at the village of Kasaan, Alaska, along the Northwest Coast, c. 1900.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Three cedar canoes on the beach at Skidegate.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Old-growth cedar trees are immense and can provide the materials for several boats. In this photograph, four different canoes are being hewn from one red cedar log at Olympic Loop, Queets River, Washington. Photograph by Dale O. Northrup, c. 1930.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Bill Reid and Associates Creating a Dugout Canoe, 1985.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Haisla dugout canoe carved and painted by David Shaw in 1934, overpainted by Bill Reid in 1967.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Edward S. Curtis, Into the Shadow, 1910. Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Photograph of the Hicks family of the Clallam tribe posing with a canoe near Chimacum Creek, Washington, ca. 1914.
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Natives making canoe from tree trunk at Mission ca. 1900. Photograph by Alexander McLean.
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