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Camakau and outrigger canoes

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What we know

  • The camakau is a single-hulled canoe with an outrigger float, used for fishing and travel between nearby islands.
  • Like the drua, it was sailed by shunting rather than by turning through the wind.
  • Smaller paddled canoes were used on rivers and inside the reef.

Words in this chapter

camakau — this chapter is where the museum explains this word. See the whole glossary →

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