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These canoes were docked on the Red Cedar at MSU in a kind of funny location. This is only about a hundred yards upriver from the stepoff behind the Admin building, and that would wreck most canoes.
File name: 08_06_030832
Title: Canoeing
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1934 - 1956 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Film negatives
Subject: Canoes
Notes: Title from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.; Date supplied by cataloger.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
Community of Santa SofÃa (Amazonas, Colombia)
Men work from 7am to 4 pm daily for 2 weeks to build a canoe by hand that will be used by members of the community to go to Leticia, a nearby community. Twice weekly, this motorized canoe will take a maximum of 30 people to buy groceries and run other errands. People will also use their canoe to go to soccer games or attend mass for special celebrations. Gasoline and other expenses are shared by the community members. As such, canoes are a key resource for the communication and mobilization of communities along the Amazon River.
www.stvincent.edu | Photos of the construction of a concrete canoe by the Engineering Department at Saint Vincent College.
A villager hollows out a canoe with an adze. A dugout canoe is made from a single tree trunk. Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Photo by Yayan Indriatmoko/CIFOR
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These are Grumman Freighter canoes on the Matthews River in northern Alaska, U.S.A. They have a stern designed to put a small motor for propulsion.
The motors were removed for 'long lining' up this river. Some places were side and very shallow.
This area has steep canyons with several abrupt right angle turns. Going down stream with dangerous narrow water running straight into the cliff face makes it difficult.
I estimate the canyon length at about 1/2 -3/4 mile.
Going upstream with 'long lines' is also a trick.
The water really is translucent so the color is coming from the rocks below.
Perhaps rich in copper?