Indians in Tule Boat - San Francisco Bay
by Louis Choris
In 1816, Otto von Kotzebue led a Russian expedition into the pacific. His ship, the Rurick, spent the month of October, 1816 in the Bay of San Francisco. The talented Ukranian-born expedition artist Louis Choris (1795-1828) produced some of the earliest and best drawings of California's native people.

There were different designs of tule boat by various California Native groups. The drawing is one desgin.

Access the websites below for more photos of a tule boat construction workshop by Dino Labiste:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH5e7CUw688

http://www.jamas.smugmug.com/gallery/2064235

http://picasaweb.google.com/keithandmelanie/TuleBoat#