Old time Hawaiians and their work . Outrigger Canoes For the best canoes he chose koa, which is a hard watched the elepaio, or woodpecker, and chose sometree that the bird did not bore into. This was rudelyshaped, and then ropes were tied to it, and it was draggeddown to the seashore. The canoe was made long and narrow so that itwould go swiftly. It was hollowed out with a special CANOE BUILDING 31 right-handed or left-handed adz which had been in-vented by one of the canoe gods. The gunwale, or moo, was made of strips of woodfastened to the upper edge to meet at bow and was u
Old time Hawaiians and their work . Outrigger Canoes For the best canoes he chose koa, which is a hard watched the elepaio, or woodpecker, and chose sometree that the bird did not bore into. This was rudelyshaped, and then ropes were tied to it, and it was draggeddown to the seashore. The canoe was made long and narrow so that itwould go swiftly. It was hollowed out with a special CANOE BUILDING 31 right-handed or left-handed adz which had been in-vented by one of the canoe gods. The gunwale, or moo, was made of strips of woodfastened to the upper edge to meet at bow and was usually six or eight inches wide, and was tied withcord or fastened with wooden pegs, and was put on tomake the canoe higher. The moo was made of a yellowwood called ahakea, and remained the natural color whenthe body of the canoe was painted Paddle The ama, or outrigger, was a steadier, made of a curvedlog of wiliwili, which was fastened to the canoe with iako,or branches of the haii tree. Most of the canoes were less than 50 feet long. Thefishing canoe of Kamehameha V is in the Bishop Mu-seum. It held four men besides the king, and its dimen-sions are: length, feet; depth outside, 27 inches;inside, inches; width outside, 23 inches; inside, ; center of canoe to center of outrigger, feet. The paddle was usually 5 feet long, the blade 12 x 20inches. 32 OLD-TIME HAWAIIANS AND THEIR WORK The launching of a canoe needed the services of thekahuna. A sacrifice was offered, and then the owner andthe kahuna stood at the bow of the boat. The latter re-cited a long prayer while the canoe was being noise at that time was a bad sign; perfect silencemeant that the canoe was safe. REVIEW Why was a priest needed when a canoe was to be built ? How wasthe tree chosen ? Can you tell why the kahuna chose
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