No. 2 (1920) 



OUTRIGGER CANOES OF INDONESIA 



55 



connected with a float on either side by a long elbow-shaped joint 

 having normally as hort inner limb and a much longer outer one. 

 The latter is inclined at about 110° from the short limb, and passes 

 so obliquely downwards that the float lies considerably beyond the 



Fig. 14. — Plan of a Waigou outrigger, a. cabin platform. 



extremities of the booms (Fig. 14). The upper end owing to 

 the elbow or angle present there, can be secured to the boom very 

 strongly by two lashings, and further stiffness is obtained by the 

 insertion of a longitudinal bracing pole between the angle of the 



Figs. 15 and 16.— Two forms of the connecting secondary Waigou type. 



elbow and the boom (Fig. 15). The long limb is straight or only 

 slightly curved ; its distal end is lashed upon the upper surface of 

 the boom. In some examples the short limb has disappeared and 

 the joint reduced to a single nearly straight rod (Fig. 16). 



