Making of traditional dugout canoe Partner: Northmen IG: https://www.instagram.com/northmenguild/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/northmenguild/ YT: https://www.youtube.com/user/neemantools Website: https://www.northmen.com/ | Crafty School

Making a dugout canoe in Kanashen, Rupununi 🛶 The Wai Wai community is still master builders of traditional dugout canoes. In this case Demetro and his father is making one near their farm. The canoe is made out of a single tree and firstly there will be shaping and hollowing the stem. After this the narrow piece is heated over a fire for several hours 🪵 Then comes this final crucial stage where they will use wooden wedges to slowly expand the canoe to the desired width as done here 📏 If they