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- mar learns about different sea vessels that our ancestors built
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- little boy and bangkas, photo by lakbayjuan.com. future plans to bring lakbayjuan to the bay area to build a bangka! in progress…
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- an idea brewing onto leftover pieces of red western cedar from the log to be used as mini-paddles
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- mar presents her first mini-paddle/spoon design
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- mini-paddles as decorations on a swinomish-pilipino attire, paddle to swinomish 2011
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- mar learns how to set up her work
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- cutting away supervised by her auntie
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- mar learns about files and rasps
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- trying out different new tools
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- rasping away safely
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- completed minipaddles by mar to be show soon, in the meantime, auntie leng’s first mini-paddle is done!
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- dreaming and honoring our ancestors
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- in the meantime, the log gets watered but looking forward to doing work on the world bangka. stay tuned for bangka workdates 🙂
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- reminiscing about uncle philip’s instructions on paddle-making last dec 2012
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- we have loaner tools, rusty some may be, if you have tools and would like to share/lend – contact mylene@bangkajourney.com
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- auntie holly and mini-bangka at a filipino festival may 2013. we plan to make mini-bangka’s as a youth project in the future. Mabuhay!!
