Canoe offers insight into Aboriginal culture and workmanship

Updated July 11 2019 - 1:12pm, first published 1:08pm

When the Gathang Guuyang was created in 2012, it was the first canoe of its kind made in more than 150 years. For thousands of years the people of the Gathang speaking nation made and used canoes from stringy-bark and blackbutt trees to explore the waters around Forster and the Wallis Lake system, the Manning, Hastings and Wilson River systems.

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