The students were quite impressed with his expertise, so much so that they wrote descriptive accounts of the pirogue-building procedure and published it in a booklet, with the help of their teachers. Here are the pages from that booklet, entitled "Mr. Tom Colvin Makes a Pirogue."
Click here to view a PDF copy of the entire booklet.
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Tom also has an extensive background in Choctaw Indian basket weaving techniques.
Tom Colvin making a basket at the "Our Heritage Celebration" in 1986
He even published a booklet showing how those baskets were made. A copy of it is in the Southeastern Louisiana University regional studies library.
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