The set of stamps of the “traditional canoes” issued in 2009 shows us canoes from Papua New Guinea which are not more used today, and even the names of the types is mostly lost.
The stamp shows us a "large sailing canoe" of the Takuu atolls/ Mortlock Islands.
This type of canoe has precise characteristics that make it possible to identify it without any possible error.
"Large sailing canoe" because there existed 3 distinct types.
The largest of the three types, according to information obtained in 1885 by Parkinson from the oldest members of Takuu Atolls and the chief Ariki Manaui, was especially used for fishing Lavenga "Ruvettus Preciosus".
One of these large canoes was still kept in a shelter in the village in 1907 but was not used for decades because it was too heavy to be pushed to the sea by the inhabitants. In 1907, no living inhabitants of Takuu Island had the opportunity to sail on this type of large canoe that was 15 meters long and 1.5 meters wide.
Several years later when R. Parkinson returned to the Takuu atolls, the last great canoe he had seen and described had become a ruin.
This type of sailboat was no longer sailing since 1885.
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