The Ti’at Society of California built Moomat Ahiko, a ti’at canoe in the 1990s in the traditional manner of Indigenous peoples of what is now California. This type of vessel is unique in North America, having been called “…the single most technologically complex watercraft built in North America…” I saw a short documentary about thisContinue reading “Clio’s Armada: Moomat Ahiko and traditional Indigenous planked canoes”
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Clio’s Armada: Napoleon III and His Trireme
When I first began to delve into the topic of heritage boatbuilding, I wondered what the first modern example of it might be. The earliest I have found is that of Napoleon III and his 1860s efforts to rebuild a classical Hellenic trireme (!). That’s just a great sentence. Victorian Europe was fascinated by theirContinue reading “Clio’s Armada: Napoleon III and His Trireme”
Clio’s Armada: Ngātokimatawhaorua and the Waitangi Treaty Grounds
I spent almost two years in New Zealand/Aotearoa and found some magnificent examples of heritage boat-building among the Indigenous Maori and the settler Pakeha peoples. One of my favourite stories was Ngātokimatawhaorua, a waka (canoe), built in the 1930s. It taught me so much about how heritage boatbuilding can be meaningful to communities, both toContinue reading “Clio’s Armada: Ngātokimatawhaorua and the Waitangi Treaty Grounds”
