Indigenous Boats

In a current temporary exhibit at the Vatican Museums, dozens of models of watercraft from numerous nations and cultures are presented to r...

Buckminster Fuller is normally associated with technological modernism, but it seems he had a penchant for preindustrial technology too. H...

A va'a alo, from  Kava Drinking Ceremonies Among the Samoans And A Boat Voyage round 'Upolu Island, Samoa , S. Percy Smith. Note ...

Some weeks ago we discussed the Samoan "small canoe," or paopao , drawing from the work of Te Rangi Hiroa. In contrast to the pao...

Born in 1877 or thereabouts, Te Rangi Hīroa , aka Sir Peter Henry Buck, was a half-English, half-Maori anthropologist who studied Maori...