To Ott's dismay, wooden canoes were replaced by aluminum canoes.

Conservation suggests that enslaved African Americans used nails to hold this wooden canoe together.

And the designer Ou Baholyodhin created a series of wooden canoe bowls (above right, $39 to $82 each).

Overturned, the wooden canoe would still float, but upright and filled with water it would drop to the bottom.

The boats are 92-foot-long wooden canoes, barely wide enough to seat two men on each bench.

An unfinished wooden canoe in his huge shed the other day belonged to one of his workmen.

In the distance, fishermen cast their nets by hand from elegant wooden canoes.

Ron thanks Mark by building a wooden canoe and leaving it in his office.

He bought his first boat - a wooden canoe for $15 - when he was 18.

For years they have subsisted almost entirely on fish caught out of small wooden canoes.