Discussing Trobriand canoes, for instance, Malinowski wrote: We Europeans . . . accustomed to our extraordinarily developed means of water transport, are apt to look down on a native canoe and see it in a false perspective – regarding it almost as a child's plaything, an abortive, ...
(Perez and Calderon2015). Archaeological investigations of the pre-Columbian occupation and ethnohistorical compilation suggest that Gorgona was a vital supply point for wood and stone artefacts to construct boats and canoes. Despite archaeometric analyses of the pottery, there is a lack of ...
One morning as we prepared to leave the Melanesian Discoverer for an outing in an area of the Sepik known as Chambri Lakes, children standing in black dugout canoes poled them alongside the catamaran, offering us a ride to Kambaramba, their village on stilts, which we would be visiting that...
due to medical conditions (from ADHD-induced wiggling legs to frequent seizures), previous earthquakes or even where they grew up. “As a native Seattleite, I have spent A LOT of my life on boats (rowboats, ferry boats, speed boats, crew shells, kayaks, canoes, etc.),” wrote ...
However, one lesson I have learned prior to this time is that no matter how much we think we understand God’s ways, we must always leave room for Him to be God and always respect His place of authority as God. An Unexpected Catch: A Journey from Darkness to Light ...
Those living below sea level recall floodwaters so high in the 1980s that they had to use canoes. Today, they board up windows and brace for storms. Surrounded by the ocean, a bay and a river, Imperial Beach is looking at losing one-third of the town if nothing is done, one ...
harvest day in early March. They woke up at 3am, headed to a motorboat with a handful of other boys and young men, and crossed the Amazon river, the largest in the world. Once on the other side, they jumped into canoes to reach a private property where açaí palms grow in the ...
So we went along to a place on the river where you could hire canoes. And a friend, who prided himself on being rather good at speaking French, went in to hire the canoes; we decided we needed three, so he asked for "trois canneurs" which he thought was the French for "three ...
they rest. Like all mammals, stress takes a toll on them and leads to shorter lifespan. Several of the springs are off limits for recreational use in the winter to allow manatees to exist undisturbed. Other sites restrict swimming but may allow use of kayaks, canoes or stand-up paddle ...
and its vegetation was far too thick for horses or canoes. In the early 1600s, Native Americans fleeing the colonial frontier took refuge here, and they were soon joined by fugitive slaves, and probably some whites escaping indentured servitude or hiding from the law. From about 1680 to t...