| Photo Essay: Warao Canoes Photograph 4: A Motorized Canoe Source: Dale A. Olsen, 1972 The largest canoes have their gunnels or sides raised by adding boards to the original dug-out log, making them seaworthy enough to transport many people and fairly heavy loads. This is one of the canoes that carried me to the village where I lived. It is driven by Cesario, a Warao Indian whose knowledge of the hundreds of rivers is outstanding (he could traverse the riverways of the Orinoco Delta like I used to be able to traverse the freeways of Los Angeles--and there are about equally intricate). The place is somewhere between Barrancas and the Winikina River, in the central Orinoco Delta.
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