Re: bark cloth (Re: Polynesian canoes

From: Erik Hammerstad (egeha.is.all.you.need_at_start.no)
Date: 07/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 23:52:29 +0200

George wrote:
> texan@texasremovethisbit.usa.com wrote in message news:<5lljf0llq4uit3in7ia935adl6vur2qc28@4ax.com>...
>
>>On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:35:51 +1200, "Carmen" <carmenz30@hotmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>[msge snipped]
>>
>>>"Yuri Kuchinsky" <yuku@trends.ca> wrote in message
>>>news:40F6DC72.5B634833@trends.ca...
>>
>>
>>
>>>>What I'm saying is that Canada was the original homeland of
>>>>the Polynesians/Maori.
>>>
>>>No it wasn't
>>>
>>>Carmen
>>>
>>
>>Know something Carmen the rest of us don't know.
>>Please share with us.
>>
>
> http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/pvs/L2migrations.html should be a good
> place for you to start from

Nice one. And with a very relevant quote for the driftwood
discussion in the Copper thread (were it doesn't belong either):
"Traditionally, Hawaiians used drift logs from the Pacific
Northwest to make canoes. Menzies, a surgeon and naturalist
accompanying Captain George Vancouver to Hawai'i, reported in
1793: "the largest single canoe we had seen amongst these islands
[was] abo ut sixty feet long and made of one piece of the trunk of
a pine tree which had drifted on shore on the east end of the
island of Kaua'i a few years back" The Hawaiians considered these
logs gifts from their gods. The two 66-foot, 25 ton spruce logs
for Hawai'iloa came by ship rather than on the ocean currents. The
gift highlighted the possibility and the need for native peoples
to work together in their efforts to maintain their cultural
traditions in the modern world."

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