Model pahi (sailing canoe from Tuamotu)

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Model pahi (sailing canoe from Tuamotu)

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Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This is a 1:35 scale model of a pahi - a double-hulled sailing canoe with two sails from the Tuamotu archipelago. This type of canoe has not been made in the Tuamotu region since the early twentieth century. There are few documentary accounts that describe pahi in detail. Much of the information that survives about this type of canoe has been reconstructed from a few drawings, written accounts, and several models in European museums. It appears the vessel was disappearing from use by the mid ...

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Image

Date created

2007

Creator

Izzat Design Limited

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/747347

Related subjects

Canoes / wood / sailing vessels / canoes / models / Tuamotu Islands / Oceanic / Polynesian / Tuamotu Islander / New Zealand

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