Model wa'a kaulua (sailing canoe from Hawai'i)

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Model wa'a kaulua (sailing canoe from Hawai'i)

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This is 1:35 scale model of a wa'a kaulua, a vessel designed as a sailing and paddling canoe and used for travel between islands in the Hawaiian archipelago. Wa'a kaulua were the main type of double canoe in pre-European Hawai'i. They were crewed and paddled by many men but were also sailed throughout the islands in the archipelago. By the early twentieth century, wa'a kaulua were virtually non existent. ConstructionThe two long hulls of wa'a kaulua were constructed from the trunk of the koa ...

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Format

Image

Date created

2007

Creator

Izzat Design Limited

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/747492

Related subjects

Canoes / sailing vessels / canoes / models / Hawaiian Islands / Hawaii / Oceanic / Polynesian / Hawaiian / model-making / New Zealand

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