🛶🔥 Darius Coombs, a citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag #Tribe, explains the traditional process of building a 12 ft (3.6 m) dugout #canoe using hardwood coals and hand tools.

The method of burning and scraping has been used by his community for thousands of years to create #transportation and maintain cultural identity.

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