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Joe Chiang, the history teacher at Warwick School, recently had the students in his Social Studies class each construct their own travoise as they studied the Plains Indians.
The basic construction of long ago used travoise consisted of a platform or netting mounted on two long poles, lashed in the shape of an elongated isosceles triangle; the frame was stabilized by a third pole bound across the two poles.
A Travoise (from the canadian french word "travail") was dragged by hand or fitted with a shoulder harness and was more efficient than dragging by dogs or horses. They were more efficient than a structure that had wheels when it came to carrying loads over forest floors, soft soil or snow.
Joe Chiang, the history teacher at Warwick School, recently had the students in his Social Studies class each construct their own travoise as they studied the Plains Indians.
The basic construction of long ago used travoise consisted of a platform or netting mounted on two long poles, lashed in the shape of an elongated isosceles triangle; the frame was stabilized by a third pole bound across the two poles.
A Travoise (from the canadian french word "travail") was dragged by hand or fitted with a shoulder harness and was more efficient than dragging by dogs or horses. They were more efficient than a structure that had wheels when it came to carrying loads over forest floors, soft soil or snow.
