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Native American Dugout Canoe
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Native American dugout canoes were made from giant white pines, burned hollow, scraped smooth with different kinds of shells gathered from the ocean, and shaped on the outside with stone ratchets. A canoe of this kind was about 5 foot and a half long, two feet wide and [unreadable] long, and took three weeks to complete. One dugout canoe estimated to be about 300 years old was found in the Pow Wow River in 1940 by William F. Tucker and became part of the William G. Goodwin Collection.
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