A double pirogue of the Kanaks of New Caledonia. Vessel with two dugout canoe hulls, wooden deck with hearth, sail and outrigger. Double pirogue of a Caledonian chief. After an illustration by Jean Hubert Piron in Labillardiere's Voyage de la Perouse. Woodcut from Robert Brown’s The Races of Mankind, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, 1873.

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