paopao Breadfruit, fiber length 13ft 3in (404cm) PROVENANCE Old Samoan Family Collection, Laie, Hawai'i Cf. Kaeppler, Adrienne, The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection, Honolulu, 2011, pp. 40-41 for an illustration by Joseph Strong dated 1893 of a very similar canoe. Probably dating to 1920-30, the canoe presented here is finely hand-carved and hollowed by an expert craftsman using traditional methods, a beautiful example of a paopao, or small canoe, the bow and stern with finely carved end pieces which broke through the waves and prevented water from spilling into the hull, the lashings composed of sennit fiber (afa) for attaching the outrigger float via the spars to the hull; fine dark-brown patina and fitted on the inside with modern chain mounts for hanging. Traditionally, this type of single-outrigger, paddle-propelled canoe was designed for one man and used inside the islands' surrounding reefs primarily for transportation and fishing. The canoe greatly impacted the Polynesian's world view, making it possible for them to not only harvest the ocean's resources, but effectively traverse it. As Peter Buck points out in Samoan Material Culture, 1930, "The paopao...is an indispensable part of every male adult's equipment in life."
paopao Breadfruit, fiber length 13ft 3in (404cm) PROVENANCE Old Samoan Family Collection, Laie, Hawai'i Cf. Kaeppler, Adrienne, The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection, Honolulu, 2011, pp. 40-41 for an illustration by Joseph Strong dated 1893 of a very similar canoe. Probably dating to 1920-30, the canoe presented here is finely hand-carved and hollowed by an expert craftsman using traditional methods, a beautiful example of a paopao, or small canoe, the bow and stern with finely carved end pieces which broke through the waves and prevented water from spilling into the hull, the lashings composed of sennit fiber (afa) for attaching the outrigger float via the spars to the hull; fine dark-brown patina and fitted on the inside with modern chain mounts for hanging. Traditionally, this type of single-outrigger, paddle-propelled canoe was designed for one man and used inside the islands' surrounding reefs primarily for transportation and fishing. The canoe greatly impacted the Polynesian's world view, making it possible for them to not only harvest the ocean's resources, but effectively traverse it. As Peter Buck points out in Samoan Material Culture, 1930, "The paopao...is an indispensable part of every male adult's equipment in life."
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