More historical canoe pics

From the Jack Tobin Marshall Islands Anthropology Collection found here:
http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/tobin/index.php?c=1

Best historic photo site ever (Marshall Islands)



Marshallese korkor, photo probably pre-1905


Dirk H. R. Spennemann's excellent site Marshall Islands Historical Images:
http://marshall.csu.edu.au/Marshalls/html/histpix/histpix.html



Photograph of Jaluit Harbour, taken before the typhoon of 1905. Note the large number of canoes.


The above listed site is found on this page of Digital Micronesia:
http://marshall.csu.edu.au/Marshalls/Marshalls_History.html



The island of Airõk, Maoleolap Atoll, with Canoes.

Jane Resture's excellent sites



 Homepage: http://www.janeresture.com/

Oceania: http://www.janesoceania.com/index.html

Index: http://www.janeresture.com/indexx.htm

Kiribati

Jane Resture's excellent site on the Kiribati canoe:
http://www.janeresture.com/kiribati_canoe/index.htm

Micronesia's flag

Puluwat

Photo of Puluwat from the site: Keepers of Indigenous Ways
http://www.keepersofindigenousways.org/id24.html

The photo here 7X larger:
http://www.keepersofindigenousways.org/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/PoluwatMicronesia.jpg

More canoe pictures from Bikini and Enewetak

From the Jack Tobin Collection

Nuclear Diaspora: Bikini and Enewetak

*Note: Diaspora definition: "A diaspora (from Greek διασπορά, "scattering, dispersion") is "the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland" or "people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location", or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands". (Wikipedia)



These photos are from the Nuclear Diaspora: Bikini and Enewetak collection at: http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/kiste/

This is one of many interesting digital and digitized collections of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa Library:
http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/research/digicoll.html

Canoe on beach and SAR plane in lagoon in background

Abner's canoe

Jorri's canoe under construction