Two Embera boys using pole to steer wooden dug out canoe through fast flowing rapids. Young boys adept at using canoes from very early age wear crowns of wild sweet-smelling lilies to attract girls...

Embera family arrive back at riverside home by dug-out canoe with sugar cane maize and bananas from their forest cultivation plot Pacific coastal region boat piragua tribe

Embera man using pole to steer wooden dug out canoe along river approaches the port of his stilted and thatched family home set back amongst cleared trees and vegetation.Pacific coastal region boat...

Embera man using single oar to steer wooden dug out canoe along rio Baudo.Pacific coastal region boat piragua tribe

Embera man Rio Verde standing knee deep in water beside his wooden dug out canoe.Pacific coastal region boat piragua tribe

Hueso an Embera man using axe to fell a large hardwood tree in dense forest to make a canoe.Pacific coastal region tribe

Hueso Embera family head using axe to fell large tree to make family dug-out canoe.Pacific coastal region tribe

Hueso an Embera father using axe to make family dug out canoe from large felled tree.Pacific coastal region boat piragua tribe

Hueso Embera father using axe to fashion a new family canoe from recently felled hardwood tree. Pacific Coast Colombuia South America

Hueso an Embera man uses an axe/adze to hollow out and shape a family canoe.Pacific coastal region piragua tribe

Embera man making dug-out canoe from large hardwood tree using hands to measure height and width of sides .Pacific coastal region boat canoa tribe American Colombian Colombia Hispanic Indegent Latin...

Embera man using axe or adze . to hollow out dug out canoe from large felled hardwood tree.Once completed canoe is dragged through forest to riverside home where final shaping takes placePacific coa...