Traditional moosehide boat
With two Native elders guiding him, Cantwell student BJ Gore learned a traditional skill that otherwise might have been lost to future generations. Gore, a high school senior at Cantwell School, created a traditional moose hide skin boat.
Nick Dennis, 80, of Nikolai, supervised the project, by recalling how his own father built a similar boat back in 1945. He doesn’t remember this kind of craft being constructed since then.
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