Canoa Yagan

Their canoes, called anán, were constructed with three large pieces of bark from trees. The canoes were the more elaborated element of the Yámana Handcraft and its more valuable property. Their life depended to have a canoe.

Sewn plates of crust to each other were maintained opened with a frame of rods of wood cleaved to means and retained On guard bent by crosspieces and longitudinal wood huts.

The floor was reinforced with more plates of crust and in the center a platform of earth or pebbles was made, on which ignited fire always stayed. The ones in charge to row were habitually the women, but when it was necessary also the men did. Except for accidents, they used to last six months to a year; the habitual time of preparation was October to February, when the crust could be come off the trees with facility.

Joomla templates by a4joomla