Dugout canoe

Dugout canoe

Cherokee Indians

Cherokee Indians -- Boats

Dugout canoes

This photograph, by an unknown photographer, shows the remnant of a Cherokee dugout canoe that was discovered in 1974 in Chattahoochee, near Helen, Georgia. The traditional Cherokee method of creating canoes used fire, instead of metal tools. Craftsmen built a fire at the base of a chosen tree, usually yellow poplar, to fell it and then remove unwanted wood by alternately burning and scraping layers of wood until the canoe was the desired size and shape. Cherokee canoes, used for fishing and transportation, could be up to thirty or forty feet long and could hold twelve people.

Unknown

Photograph Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1974

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StillImage

16219

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2009-01-15

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Qualla Boundary

Appalachian Region, Southern

5" x 7"(dimension)

Craft Revival