Don't know how many of you might have caught this video film in the past...it's quite different
I had never seen anything like this on television or elsewhere.
http://bit.ly/ CesarBirchCanoe
It shows the building of a canoe solely from forest materials.
--No nails, no high tech adhesives, no modern equipment; raw and beautiful in its simplicity and art.
César Newashish, a 67-year-old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve north of Montreal,
uses only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots and tree gum.
Tags: ancient, arts, bark, birch, canoe, cedar, crafts, gum, indian, paddling
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