Making a bark canoe

  Zoom After cutting the outer bark into a canoe shape, Charlie Murray uses a wooden rod to prise the bark from the trunk without ringbarking the tree.   Zoom Charlie Murray uses fire and smoke to dry out and shape the canoe.   Zoom Charlie Murray shapes the end of the canoe.   Zoom Charlie Murray and Neil Morcom fasten the ends of the canoe together using vines, timber struts and clay.   Zoom Charlie Murray sits in a finished canoe.
Main A project from the National Museum of Australia