Natives in Guyana make canoes out of this part of the locust tree
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Black Locust - Wikipedia  Robinia pseudoacacia, commonly known in its native territory as black locust, is a ... The locust tree of Spain (Ceratonia siliqua or carob tree), which is also native to Syria .... The leaves come out of the bud folded in half, yellow green, covered with ... The physical construction of the flower separates the male and female parts...
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'green' cornerDon't despise the Stinking Toe ... - Guyana Chronicle  Jul 21, 2012 ... This West Indian Locust tree produces a fruit with a bad smell but a delicious taste. ... I found out, too, that the smell, after I had gorged myself on the fruit, was ... The bark and other parts of the tree are good for treating back pain, and ... by the indigenous peoples of the Amazon region to make large canoes...
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Indigenous Woods of British Guiana  The CHS-JCCSS alumni blog  Mar 26, 2011 ... Height of the tree, 106 feet ; diameter of the trunk, 30 inches. ... It is plentiful in all parts of the Colony, in low swampy places ... The Indians make "wood-skins " or canoes, of the bark. ..... spend some of my retirement years in the peacefullness and tranquility of Guyana's interior, away from the hustling crowd.
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Jeopary Question, LOCUST POTPOURRI - TriviaBistro.com  Jeopardy Question: LOCUST POTPOURRI - Natives in Guyana make canoes out of this part of the locust tree.
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Report 2 - Guyana News and Information  The Warrau chieftain, Clementi, has selected one of them to build on its .... which was much farther to the west than that part of the Cuyuni where, from the ... Two of the Indians were occupied in finishing a native canoe, which they had ... The Warraus are famed for their skill in finishing canoes out of the single trunk of a tree.
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bark - Search-ID  Bark has been used to make cloths, canoes, ropes and used as a surface for ... out of this part of the locust tree; (Jeff Probst reads from a Fiji Islands beach.) A traditional Fijian art is making tapa, a cloth that's produced by pounding this tree part ... A traditional Ugandan cloth is made from this part of the mutuba tree, softened...
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History of Boats  Rafts; Reed Boats; Dugouts Canoes; Kayaks & Coracles; Earliest Leather Boats ( 9500 BC ? ) ... at the time, anthropologists can guess at the kinds of watercraft they used. ... Rafts using bamboo, logs or reeds; Dug-out canoes; Leather boats ... Nowadays, the most primitive examples are the one-man boats made from...
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Guyana Welcome Book - Peace Corps  As a Volunteer, you can be an agent of positive and enduring change; however, it requires being ... together with Guyanese will be integral parts of your pre-service training. ...... Guyana is a tropical country on the northeastern shoulder of South America. ... Guyana was named by its first people, the indigenous locally known...
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Couroupita guianensis - Wikipedia  Couroupita guianensis, known by several common names, including cannonball tree, is a ... This tree is planted as an ornamental for its showy, scented flowers, and as a botanical ... Native Amazonians use extracts of several parts of the tree to treat ... Maya held onto the branch of a blossoming sal tree while she was giving...
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Native American Canoes - Native Indian Tribes  Three main types of canoes were built, dugout, birch bark and tule (reed) canoes, ... a wooden framework and the tough paper-like bark peeled from the birch tree ... built by the Northwest Pacific coast tribes were up to 60 feet (18 m) long and...
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Visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia  Visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas encompasses the visual artistic traditions of .... Indigenous peoples of the Canadian arctic have produced objects that could be ... In this period, which reached its height in the late 19th century, Inuit artisans ...... Today basket weaving often leads to environmental activism.
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The Guianas - Wikipedia  Large map of the Guyanas, including the Venezuelan (former Spanish Guyana) and the Brazilian (former Portuguese Guyana). The Guianas, sometimes called by the Spanish loan-word Guayanas (Las Guayanas), are a ... Christopher Columbus first spotted the coast of the Guianas in 1498, but real interest in the...
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Wampum - Wikipedia  Wampum are traditional shell beads of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of the indigenous people ... Wampum were used by the northeastern Native Americans as a form of gift exchange. Early historians and colonists ... The League of the Iroquois was founded, according to some estimates, in 1142. Others place its origin as...
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Longhouse - Revolvy  The longhouses inhabited by the Iroquois were wood boards/bark-covered structures of ... Each longhouse would house several generations of an extended family; ... One may observe similarities to South American jungle villages also living in ... The Rungus of Sabah in north Borneo build a type of longhouse with rather...
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Historical Folk Toys - Catalog Continuation Page: Canoe Kit  Continued from product description on Native American's Page One. ... may well be Man's earliest boat when he made dugout canoes from tree trunks. This type of canoe was originally made by burning one side of a log to hollow it out. ... the Bronze Age that Man began carving or hacking out the tree's core for a boat.
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AmerindianEuropean Encounters on and around Tobago (1498 ...  River, Tobago's largest stream, has developed an extensive basin. The island's ... of East Venezuela, can be reached easily by canoe from Tobago, although the ... variously called canima, caniba, canbales, carbales or caribes in Columbus' ... mouth in East Suriname which still at present is densely inhabited by Kalina.
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Lewis and Clark . Native Americans . Yankton Sioux | PBS  Lewis and Clark navigation, Yankton Sioux Indians ... When they met the expedition at the end of August 1804, the Yanktons were ready to open a ... of their people  the bow and arrow  and then performed a series of ceremonial dances.
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NativeTech: Native American Uses for Birchbark  Native Americans of the Northeastern Forests made wide use of the outer bark of ... and the best type of bark for items from canoes to containers is the paper birch, ... To peel bark sheets from the tree, a vertical slit is made down the trunk. ... two feet long can be peeled from around the trunk by prying up using your hands...
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Canoe Plants of Ancient Hawai`i: KUKUI  When I first rode to Hana years ago, I noticed the kukui trees, distinctive in their pale green silvery ... The tree is sometimes called the Candlenut Tree. ... The plants that they chose to bring on their canoes had to serve many useful purposes.
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Garifuna people - Wikipedia  The Garifuna are mixed-race descendants of West African, Central African, Island Carib, and ... He took ethnographic and linguistic notes on the native peoples of these .... As a result of extensive emigration from Central America, the United States ... Bight and Dangriga, Belize have claimed to have seen feats of levitation.
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Why travel to Suriname: The former Dutch colony now run by a drug ...  Jan 17, 2014 ... A man sits along the banks of the Suriname River in the capital city of Paramaribo. ... lesser-knowns, Guyana and French Guyana, the continent's non-Latin nations. ... That's the difference between Suriname and many other...