. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. CATALOGUE OF THE WATERCKAFT COLLECTION'. 285 curved up at ends; above the outer edges of these are two smaller bundles of nearly uniform diameter, so lashed as to increase the height on the sides and form a sort of hollow inside. Dimensions of halsa.—Length, 18 feet 10 inches; width, 3 feet 1 inch. This boat very closely resembles the grass balsas of South America. Boats of this kind are buoyant and are sometimes used for surf work. Gift of Bureau of Arts, Paris. Cat. No. 127,997 PART 5. DESCRIPTION OF VESSELS AND BOATS OF PACIFIC I
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. CATALOGUE OF THE WATERCKAFT COLLECTION'. 285 curved up at ends; above the outer edges of these are two smaller bundles of nearly uniform diameter, so lashed as to increase the height on the sides and form a sort of hollow inside. Dimensions of halsa.—Length, 18 feet 10 inches; width, 3 feet 1 inch. This boat very closely resembles the grass balsas of South America. Boats of this kind are buoyant and are sometimes used for surf work. Gift of Bureau of Arts, Paris. Cat. No. 127,997 PART 5. DESCRIPTION OF VESSELS AND BOATS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS. Samoan fishing canoe. A type of canoe used by the natives at Tutuila, Samoa, for bonita fishing. It is an open, sharp-ended, outrigged dugout canoe, with. FIG. 94. SAMOAN OUTRIGGER CANOE. round bottom, one end rising in a long easy curve from the bottom, the other sharp and hollowed at the extremity, so that it projects forward at top and lower corner; small balance log attached to two outriggers; no sail; two paddles. Dimensions of canoe.—Length, 23 feet 7 inches; width, 19 inches; depth, 16 inches; outriggers, outboard, 3 feet 8 inches; balance log, 13 feet 10 inches long, 4 inches diameter; paddles, 4 feet 4 inches long, 9 inches extreme width of blades. Collected by T. D. Bolles. Cat. No. 160,333 Model of Samoan outrigger canoe. An open, sharp-ended dugout, having a sharp keellike bottom rising from near the center to the bow in a long easy curve. The stern is practically vertical. There are four outriggers close to- gether, with their inner ends lashed to each gunwale and their outer ends lashed to a framework attached to the balance log. The balance log extends parallel to the dugout from a point opposite the stern, to a point about one-fourth the length of the dugout from the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustratio
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