Vaka faika
- Description:
- Vaka faika. Fishing Canoe. This is a vaka faika made of lakau (wood) and kafa (sennit). The fuatino (hull) is badly damaged with only part of the top half remaining. Remnants of kafa that lashed the two halves of the fuatino are still attached. Both the puke a mua (prow) and puke a tua (stern) are broken also. Three kiato (cross booms) made of cylindrical pieces of lakau are lashed across the fuatino. A platform is lashed across the kiato in t...
- Display date:
- Made: Pre 1951; Acquired: Circa 1951
- Location:
- Funafuti
- Collections:
- Auckland Museum Collections Online
- Content partner:
- Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira
- Availability:
- Not specified
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