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Children of the Long Canoes

The outrigger canoe — the vessel in which the ancient Polynesian people explored the Pacific — was simple in its design. “A seaworthy vessel carved from trees with stone tools, assembled with lashings of fiber, and rigged with sails of plaited leaves,” is how renowned Hawaiian artist and historian Herb Kane (1928- 2011) described it in his seminal 1976 work Voyage, The Discovery of Hawai`i. But simple and primitive though the original canoes may have been, they

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