The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #80759   Message #1476341
Posted By: Naemanson
02-May-05 - 07:36 AM
Thread Name: BS: Contacting the British Museum
Subject: RE: BS: Contacting the British Museum
Guest, these boats are high tech dugouts. The hull of our Carolinian canoe is made of at least five pieces sewn together with coconut fiber and caulked with heated breadfruit sap. Nobody knows what the original flying proas looked like or how they were constructed. Our goal is to recreate them and bring back the old Spanish name for the Northern Marianas Islands. No, not the "island of thieves" but the "islands of sails".