He learned the craft at Lake Titicaca in the Andes. Since then, he has built more than 340 reed boats and traveled more than 9,400 miles in them. This week, Ishikawa bundled and piled tule reeds ...

He learned the craft at Lake Titicaca in the Andes. Since then, he has built more than 340 reed boats and traveled more than 9,400 miles in them. This week, Ishikawa bundled and piled tule reeds ...

The past and the future came together Saturday, as students from Coast Live Oak School’s native skills class joined a group from the local Tongva tribe to build a tule canoe using ancient ...

was an even more remarkable craft. This 30-foot vessel was made from bundles of tule reeds, a boat-building method practiced for thousands of years by the Coast Miwok, Ohlone and Pomo. It is the ...

Tule reed raft stands the test of one of the West ... and proving native materials at hand could have produced a craft that could have survived the unforgiving voyage, Martin came closer to ...

of 2001. So let's cast off. Gilligan and the S.S. Minnow this ain't. Learn how to build a tule-reed boat from artist Charles Kennard, who hand-built the tule- reed boat on view at the "Adrift ...

“I bundle them up and put them in the truck,” James said Saturday morning as she secured an armful of cut tule stalks with a few strips from a bedsheet and stood the bundle up to shake and ...

Students at Hacienda Environmental Science Magnet School learn first-hand about Ohlone indigenous people by constructing a dried tule reed boat and taking it for a spin at the pond located on the ...