2024年9月11日 · Women and elders helped to make sails from pandanus leaves and ropes from the rot-proof fibers of coconut husk and purau underbark. Kilometers of rope were needed to assemble the pieces of the pirogue. Paddles, rudders, bails and anchors were placed on deck, where a leaf-roofed cabin could also be found.

The group was traveling the icy river and set out to continue their journey, Sacagawea and her husband Charbonneau were in a pirogue—a large rowboat with sails—that carried the important scientific equipment, journals, books (including a particularly valuable botany reference book), bullets, and medicine.

2013年10月26日 · But we are not alone on the water—men and women carry produce on rafts made from pirogues they have bound together, parents paddle their children home from school, and fishermen pull in their nets. We stop in villages to find a bustling market, a makeshift health clinic, an open-air church and a school with few if any resources.

A pirogue (/ p ɪ ˈ r oʊ ɡ / or / ˈ p iː r oʊ ɡ /), [1] also called a piragua or piraga, is any of various small boats, particularly dugouts and canoes. The word is French and is derived from Spanish piragua [piˈɾaɣwa] , which comes from the Carib piraua .

2025年1月4日 · Painted by their owners, hundreds of these canoe-like Senegalese pirogues line the water’s edge in Mbour, testament to a vibrant culture

This unusual chaise longue, inspired by Polynesian and Micronesian dugout canoes, known in Frances as pirogues, is lacquered and silvered. Very similar to one that Gray designed in 1919-20 for Madame Mathieu Lévy, a successful Parisian fashion designer known as Suzanne Talbot, it is among the most celebrated examples of furniture in the Art ...

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Kenneth Koch's "How in Her Pirogue She Glides" is a delicate and evocative poem that uses the image of a woman gliding in a pirogue to explore themes of beauty, nature, and the effect of grace on the human heart.

Susan Man and Alida Hubbell, the first women to teach in Fort Wayne, came to the town by pirogue from the mouth of the Maumee in 1836. The pirogue began to be replaced by boats and then canal boats by the mid-1830s.