No. 1 (19^0) OUTRIGGER CANOES OF INDONESIA 



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the float is often carved and sometimes is decorated with a design 

 in black (Fig. 5). 



Fig. 5. — Carved anterior extremity of the boom of a Manokwari outrigger from above 



and also in side view. 



The hull is an ordinary slabsided double-ended dugout. End 

 pieces, ornamented with elaborate carving in the better built ones, 

 are fitted on at each end, and between them the sides are raised 

 with a weather-boarding made of several superposed rows of the 

 leaf-stalks of the sago-palm, finished off with a squared wooden 



Fig. 6. — Section of the hull of a Manokwari outrigger, showing method of lashing- 

 the boom inboard ; a. gunwale of soft wood ; b. weather-board made 

 of four palm leaf-stalks. 



bar forming a rude gunwale; the whole structure is secured in 

 position by vertical pegging (Fig. 6). 



Considerable variation obtains in the design of the prow and 



Fig. 7. — Fore end of a small Manokwari outrigger showing the form of added stem 

 piece and the weather-board of palm leaf-stalks. 



stern pieces. In small canoes these are simple in form, being 

 carved out of the solid and added at each end to safeguard the 



