Bowl boats & Bull boats

Vietnamese bamboo bowl boat
http://www.extrasleepy.com/photo/pages/photo-bowl-boat.html

Mandan willow-frame buffalo skin boat
http://www.minnehahacounty.org/museums/exhibits/l_c_gifts_mandan/teachers/artifact_pages/32_buffalo_bull_boat.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Catlin_mandan_village.jpg


Tibetan willow-frame yak skin boat (kudru) w/ yak butter grease (ghee) waterproofing
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Kudru.jpg/220px-Kudru.jpg


http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/T17.5.html




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Large baskets from Yosemite valley Paiute/Miwok (Pen-uti-an) woman:
http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt9199q6g6/?layout=metadata&brand=calisphere
http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt809nd0gr/ (baskets)
http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt15801729/ (Yosemite valley flooded)

http://www.aboutnevadacounty.com/history/maidu/

Words in Penutian, Maidun (water: momim ~ omi -danubian/Yoruba; miwok - kiku/liwa)
http://www.native-languages.org/fampen_words.htm

Penutian from pen (2) and uti (2), not an original tribal name.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1265869

British Celtic mai-dun, meaning a "great hill." (maidun hill fort, British south coast)

Situla: 7th c BC bronze age bucket/pail (Etruscan, Slovene, Egypt (mammaeform bottom cf Polynesian kavakava coconut bowl), probably derived from pitch-lined basket bowl cf shield)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situla_(vessel)

Slovene: adjacent to Venice, 'origin' of Venetian/Veneti/Finnic/Uenn/Phoenician/Punic/Punt/Pun (red sea Ochre trade), linked via Danube to Nile Anu/danubia, always bordering empires (Rome, Austria, Ottoman), had Uralic languages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia

mapiloa(N)=point/show with finger
Malays point with thumb, not finger (rude)

Maples have hand-like leaves (pentadactyle)

thumbs/fools/uei mapipiltin(N)who shone at small tlacuicuiliztli(N)=sculpture,=taquiyya(Arab)=
sweeping [no tree bark in desert, so cairns/stone markings/sweeping (also Peru)]

similar to shaving/sco(lpt)ring/scrap(pt)ing/stripping bark(beaver/bear/moose/mammoth), possibly related to first scripting/writing/runes/cuneiforms not stamped, cf alif/alpha/elf/eleve/vette|i(spade)

(tre/a/uck-travel/ois-trade-drag-troika) trunk/kudru(tibet coracle)/thung chai(Viet coracle)/thumb; first tropical coracle/hut-tent from plants, first ex-tropical coracle/hut-tent) may have been mammoth/elephant pelt, only much later defurred waxed/yak-buttered sewn leathers.

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Giant art gallery yacht, Seafair, stops in Miami: http://www.expoships.com/