viernes, 1 de febrero de 2008

Umbrella boats

The question is: what was first, umbrellas or umbrella boat? For generations the people of Northern Karnataka has been crossing currents, rives and lakes with this simple but resistant boats. So simple like to put an umbrella upsidedown and then, row. Chasis made of branches and palms of raffia, crossed one upon the other and bounded in a circle way. Then they add the strong skin of buffalo atthe botton, tied it up.. et "le voila" a boat.. Genial... able to support 20 or more people, a cow or even motobykes... and probably to cross seas...

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