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 issues ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - As light fades on the shores of Sydney Harbour, a group of men finish building a traditional aboriginal canoe using bark from eucalyptus trees. Smoke smothers the strips of bark as ...

Aboriginal people have long used bark, wood and trees for practical and symbolic purposes. These include making canoes, containers, shields and wooden implements, accessing food resources, and marking ...

Ever-venturesome Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer, in his beautiful but demanding “Ten Canoes,” takes the viewer back 1,000 years to evoke the lives of Aborigines and even further, to a mythological ...

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A northern Michigan resident makes canoes and other items the old-fashioned way. MIDLAND -- Michigan has abundant natural resources. For Jim A. Miller, such abundance is fuel for his art. The Chippewa ...

Weaving is one of the most complex and sophisticated examples of First Nations technology and culture. It produces objects of ...

Indigenous students and community members gathered at the beach outside the Northwestern Sailing Center on Friday morning to launch a hand-crafted birch bark canoe for its inaugural trip on Lake ...

ESCANABA, Mich. (WLUC) - Members of the Escanaba Sault Tribe Community Building are constructing a birch bark canoe. Larry Godfrey says birch bark canoes are to native tribes like cars are to ...

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