Canoe: carved prow of a type of canoe called nipawa, meaning grasshopper or cicada

This sort of carved canoe prow without lateral prow board (lagim) and fore-aft prow board (tabuya) is called 'nipawa', a word that also means grasshopper or cicada.

• 1975-1976

• Hutchins, Dona
• Hutchins, Edwin

Private collection of E. Hutchins, Sleeve 21, Slide 20

35mm color slide

• Melanesia
• Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea)
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)

• Canoes
• Kula exchange
• Trobriand Islanders
• Wood-carving

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

• Hutchins, Dona
• Hutchins, Edwin

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2021-11-17