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Building a Tule Boat
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Sophia Petrova
Troop
220, Fremont
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We spent the first three weeks gathering
tule, which we bundled and transported back to the base to lay out and
dry. After that, we sorted out the tule and separated it into a total of
five bundles- One big, two smaller, and two smaller than that. We split
each bundle in half then put them back together again in opposite
directions so that stalks tapered off in either direction with thicker
stalks meeting in the middle. After putting a rod/stick inside for
support, we bundled them multiple times with rope and old tule, creating
five bundles. We weaved these five bundles together with the biggest as
the bottom base, assembling the boat.
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collecting tules |
Volunteers: Yu, Valentin, Eugene, Victor,
Inayat, Colin, Anya, Hafsa, Avni, Natalie, Zoe, Nithi, Bhoomika,
Athira, Apoorva, Syrine (Troopmates as well as some personal
friends).
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making bundles to tie together |
the completed boat |
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