Canoe Model Indian Girl
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Canoe Model Indian Girl
Dimensions:
24"(long) x 7"(tall) x 5"(wide)
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Canoe History:
Canoes were developed over the course of thousands of years by the native peoples of North America. The word 'canoe' originiated from the word 'kenu' - meaning dugout. These seagoing boats were used by the Carib Indians of the Caribbean islands, and were made of large tree trunks which were shaped and hollowed, and were strong enough to travel between the islands.
North American Indians are responsible for creating the more well-known version of the canoe - a frame of wooden ribs that is covered with the lightweight bark of birch, elm or cedar trees. These boats, which have remained virtually unchanged in design for thousands of years, proved to be ideal for travelling the numerous streams, rivers and lakes of North America.
Birchbark was the perfect choice to build canoes because, not only was it lightweight and smooth, but it was also waterproof and resilient.
The joints of the canoes were held together by the root of the white pine and then made waterproof by applying hot pine or spruce resin.
As the commerce of early North America grew, so did the need for canoes. The fur trade became so large, in fact, that the French set up the world's first known canoe factory at Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, around the year 1750. Many of the canoes that fur traders used were capable of carrying a crew of up to 12 people and a cargo weighing around 2400 kilograms.
Historians have traced the Indian canoe back as far as they can, but that's not very far. Indians did not keep very much in the way of written records and the canoes themselves were completely biodegradable, so we don't have archeological relics to examine, either. All we do have are some meager records left during the 16th Century by European explorers. All we really know is that canoe making was perfected a long time ago and that it stayed the same for centuries.
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