2 Responses to “Mashoon (canoe) Finished”

1. Joanna Hennessey Says:
   October 28th, 2009 at 9:14 pm

   I had wondered why they were kept with water in them… now i know.

2. Tim Says:
   October 29th, 2009 at 3:46 pm

   ya keeping them wet will keep them from cracking. In the 17th century the natives would filled the boats with hevay stones and sank them on the botom of the rivers and ponds. They would just remove the stones in the spring and float them to the shore and let them dry out for a day or so.

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