A Perfect One-Man Canoe
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From Our Own Correspondent
Honolulu, Nov. 9.
"VTOW standing in the famed Polynesian Hall of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, is a paopao (small outrigger canoe) from Niue (lying south of Samoa and east of Tonga) which proves that the natives of old knew something about what white men call streamlining.
This exhibit is cigar-shaped, pointed to both ends, and with a trim outrigger. It was made by a colony of natives who went to American Samoa from Niue, tak ing their own culture* which is somewhat different to that of the Samoans. The canoe is perfect for one man. It is less than 16ft. longhand only a foot wide, quit© seaworthy and sufficient for fishing in open sea. The hull appears to be hol lowed from breadfruit wood. Mr, E. H.
Bryan, the Museum’s curator of collec tions, thinks.