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Photographer: Native Americans on the Georgia Coast Marker
Caption: Preserving Game through Smoking
Additional Description: Food was preserved through smoking the meat on racks of green willow. The frame was called barbacoa. This is the origin of the modern word barbeque.

Native American Canoes
Canoes were produced by hollowing out large logs usually from cypress. These vessels were used as fishing boats as well as to transport people and agricultural goods. Native Americans harvested a bounty of marine life. They consumed turtles, eels, mussels, clams, and oysters.
Submitted: May 26, 2009, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p64794
File Size: 0.110 Megabytes

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