Canoes

1. Area

2. Country

3. Tribe/Culture

4. Name

5. Style & Function

1. Melanesia

2. PNG

3. Tami Is.

4. Large double outrigger canoe

5. used for trading

1. Area

2. Country

3. Tribe/Culture

4. Name

5. Style & Function

1. Melanesia

2. PNG

3. Tami Is.

4. Detail of splashboard and prow decorations

5. carved details for protection

1. Area

2. Country

3. Tribe/Culture

4. Name

5. Style & Function

1. Melanesia

2. PNG

3. Trobriand Is.

4. Trobriand canoe prow with splashboard and vertical element

5. figure in displayed pose

• for protection, said to have magic in it

1. Area

2. Country

3. Tribe/Culture

4. Name

5. Style & Function

1. Melanesia

2. PNG

3. Trobriand Is.

4. Trobriand outrigger canoe on beach

5. 2 ancestor figures that protect the canoe

• for fishing

1. Area

2. Country

3. Tribe/Culture

4. Name

5. Style & Function

1. Melanesia

2. PNG

3. Iatmul

4. Conoe prow with monster croc, pregnant ancestor, and baby monster croc

1. Area (melanesia, micronesia,indonesia,polynesia)

2. Country

3. Tribe/Culture

4. Name

5. Style & Function

1. Melanesia

2. PNG

3. Gogodala

4. Gogodala ceremonial conoe

5. Spirit canoe

• Used to initiate men going to adulthood

• Ancestor head - devouring of

• Clan motifs on it

1. Area

2. Country

3. Tribe/Culture

4. Name

5. Style & Function

1. Melanesia

2. West Papua

3. Asmat

4. Uramon spirit canoe with carved human and animal figures

5. A vessel

• Shark on one end

• severed bodies

• humans with animal (bird and tortoise) bodies

1. Area

2. Country

3. Tribe/Culture

4. Name

5. Style & Function

1. Melanesia

2. West Papua

3. Asmat

4. Canoes prow with 3 figures

5. headhunting meaning

• blood spraying patterns

• elongated human

• praying mantis pose