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FHS5047th

Image ID:  FHS5047
Image Date:  [no date]
Image Title:  Wanigan.
Image Caption:  They live, eat, and sleep on wanigans, huge cedar pole rafts fastened into a craft with twisted wild choke cherry vines. The wanigan pilot maneuvers his strange craft into the center and rides the streak of whitewater in the crest of the current.
Photographer:  [unknown]
Use Restrictions:  Permission from the Forest History Society required for any use of this image.
Repository Contact Information:  Forest History Society, Inc.; 701 William Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701; Tel.: (919) 682-9319; Fax: (919) 682-2349.