Lower Elwha Klallam tribal members will cut down a 165-foot western cedar today to be carved into an ocean-going ceremonial canoe. Tribal Executive Director John Miller said the 10-foot diameter tree ...

EDMONDS, Wash. -- Students are helping carve new life into a 300- to 400-year-old Alaskan cedar at Edmonds Community College. “It is powerful to take that life of the tree that is so old and have the ...

LAPWAI, Idaho (AP) - Wood chips were flying as fourth- and fifth-grade Lapwai Elementary students helped carve a traditional canoe. Nez Perce Tribe member Julian Matthews organized the evening carving ...

For the first time in more than 100 years, a traditional xwaxwana (canoe) has been carved from a windfall large cultural cedar tree high in H’kusam Forest near Sayward on Vancouver Island. For the ...

A canoe built using traditional Micronesian techniques has made its maiden voyage up the River Foyle. The 8ft (2.34m) canoe was made from a tree felled at the Brook Hall Estate in Londonderry during a ...

In Hawai’i, the art of carving outrigger canoes has traditionally been a male pursuit. Many women have captained and paddled the canoes, but few have learned to build them—an undertaking that requires ...

The ax falls time and again, kicking up the cedar-smelling chips. Passersby pause to watch through the front window of Fort Lauderdale’s Upper Room Art Gallery, witnessing a Seminole dugout canoe come ...

10:33, Tue, Aug 6, 2024 Updated: 10:34, Tue, Aug 6, 2024 Soldiers near the Modlin Fortress in Mazowieckie, Poland, have unearthed a dugout canoe that was carved from a single tree. It was submerged at ...

Willison Yarofaitir, seated in a 13-foot canoe in the middle of the River Foyle in Ireland, raised a paddle above his head, celebrating on July 11 a momentous voyage that began over 7,500 miles away ...