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Dugout Canoes

Dugout Canoes
Dugout canoes are made from hollowed-out tree trunks and thus are naturally buoyant. They may be plain or elaborately decorated like this canoe made by Native North Americans who used fish scales as a motif.
Gunter Marx Photography/Corbis
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Native Americans of North America; Boats and Boatbuilding; Ship; Canoe; Woodworking
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