Our artifact of the month for June comes from our International Small Craft Center exhibition and is a bull boat, ca 1939.
The bull boat (or sometimes bison boat) was named for the material that covers the framework. Traditionally women were the ones who built & used these boats for transport and communication between the villages on the Missouri River and its tributaries. A small paddle was then used to paddle in the direction desired, as shown in the photograph below.
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