Canoe and Canoe House

Bikinian boats in 1946

Bikini - their home

Bikinians leaving their home in 1946...

From the video:  World of Discovery - Bikini: Forbidden Paradise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehjy0NeoB44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehjy0NeoB44https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehjy0NeoB44

Artistic licence can bring peace, yes?

Found far along in an image search for proas - an idylic, if not strictly accurate, piece by Fronckowiak.  On a page of his titled "Loose Tropical".



Found here:  http://www.marilart.com/index.php

Pacific Seacraft Drawings

From Canoes of Oceania here:
http://outriggersailingcanoes.blogspot.com/2012/03/drawings-of-oceanic-canoes.html

And here: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cherini/OCE1/index.html

Some really magnificent drawings here:
And here: http://www.cherini.eu/etnografia/Oceania2/index.html

 What I want to know is who came first - this artist or Herb Kane!!!

Above: I recognize this image as well.  See the photocopy below.    Compare it to the one below (from here):http://wavetying.blogspot.com/2012/06/island-literature.html)

Coincidence?????

The photo above is, I believe, a photocopy I made from an old National Geographic magazine - I wish I could remember what island it's from!

For reference - a Kiribati canoe

Above - Note the mast crutch in use

Making rope in the Canoe House

Getty Images - National Geographic

Here: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/satawal-sailors-braid-a-sennit-rope-for-a-boats-rigging-news-photo/80169279

Paafu: The Star Compass

As a adjunct to the post of a few days ago, here is the drawing of the star compass from Stephen Thomas's book, The Last Navigator.

"East is Not a Big Bird"

(This post needs some cleaning up....)

Ever since I began reading about Micronesian celestial navigation many years ago, I've read that the cardinal point, so to speak, was East, where the constellation Mailap, "the big bird" rises.  The sources cited below all basically asserted this.  But I just came across a piece published by these guys - Gary Holton, Calistus Hachibmai, Ali Haleyalur, Jerry Lipka, and Donald Rubinstein - which asserts otherwise.   

It's found here:
https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/oceanic_linguistics/v054/54.2.holton.pdf

I can't read it, nor can I excerpt from it here because it's published on one of these private scholarly sites which require a paid subscription.  But I did find a Powerpoint (?) presentation here and captured a bunch of screenshots.  This is all I can scrape together but I'd really like to read this thing...

The screenshots here -

Stamps and Scenes

Nauru

Yap

Pohnpei

Kosrae