Fiji Canoe (camakau)

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Title

Fiji Canoe (camakau)

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Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This is a photograph of a camakau, a fast and highly manoeuvrable outrigger sailing canoe used to travel among the islands of Fiji. In the 19th and early 20th century, the average length of a full size camakau was twelve metres, and some are reported as being up to thirty metres in length. The hulls were made from a single trunk, or in the case of larger vessels, two trunks joined together. Larger vessels required a crew of forty men to handle the large triangular sail and rigging. Either end...

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Format

Image

Date created

1890-1910

Creator

Thomas Andrew

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/113340

Related subjects

Outrigger canoes / Sailboats / Indigenous peoples / Seas / Fiji / Fijian / silver / photographic gelatin / sheet glass / photographic plates / black-and-white negatives / gelatin dry plate negatives

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