Model: outrigger canoe, Rarotonga

Object detail

Description

A wooden outrigger paddling vaka model, carved in a simple style, the hull is a solid piece of carved wood which has shallow carved interior each end of the vaka hull has two notches incised into the surface and a notched recess cut on the bottom surface of fore and after ends.

The hull is attached to the flat ama (outrigger float) by two booms spaced widely apart project out from ama, lashed with sennit to pa-tiatia (outrigger connectives). A flat cut out hoe (paddle) with large ovate blade with pointed tip is lashed lengthways across the vaka hull and kiatos.

A souvenir purchased by Don Hamer, 3rd Officer in SS WAITEMATA (1908), Union Steam Ship Company when the ship was in the Cook Islands.

Accession number

2009.148.2

Museum System ID

4575

Collection type

Objects

Classification

Miniature

Maker and role

Unknown: Maker

Media/Materials

Wood: 0 - Whole

Measurement details

3D objects (HxWxD): H 77 x W 455 x D 165mm

Production place and notes

Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Oceania

On display?

Not on display

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Object type

Models

Subject category

Modelmaking Maritime Arts Pacific vaka Waka & Canoes Vessel Type

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