Canoe, Museum of Tahiti and the Islands, Punaauia
Canoe or vakanati made from wooden planks sewn together with sennet and caulked with lime, made for standing in, from Takakoto, Tuamotu Archipelago, collection by Doctor K P Emory of the Bishop Museum and gifted to the Papeete Museum in 1931, in the Musee de Tahiti et des Iles, or Te Fare Manaha, at Punaauia, on the island of Tahiti, in the Windward Islands, Society Islands, French Polynesia. The Museum of Tahiti and the Islands was opened in 1974 and displays collections of nature and anthropology, habitations and artefacts, social and religious life and the history of French Polynesia. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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Archipel Archipelago Artefact Canoe Collectivite Collectivity Doutre-mer Fare Francaise Iles Lime Manaha Oceania Plank Polynesia Polynesian Polynesie Punaauia Republique Sennet Sewn Societe Stitched Tahiti Tahitian Totaiete Vent Windward
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