The first bark canoe built by the Tasmanian Aboriginal community in more than 170 years is now on display in Hobart's Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Skip to main content.

It has been 170 years since a full-sized ''nawi'' or traditional Aboriginal bark canoe capable of carrying two or three adults has appeared on the ever-moving waters of Sydney Harbour.

Several notches above a regulation making-of docu, "The Balanda and the Bark Canoes" is an enlightening excursion to the remote set of Rolf de Heer's "Ten Canoes." Centered on cross-cultural ...

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LANSING—When Tom Byers first laid eyes on a birch bark canoe, it wasn’t what he saw that captivated him most.It was what he heard.“I hesitate to say the canoe spoke to me, but that’s what ...

MORE THAN 170 YEARS ago Aboriginal bark canoes glided on the waters of Sydney Harbour.And thanks to the efforts of a teacher, the traditional Aboriginal canoe or ‘nawi’ has come back to the city. The ...

The students in the aboriginal arts program at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design have gathered spruce roots, birch bark and ash and cedar wood to build the canoe. Using instructions handed ...