Page:The Melanesians Studies in their Anthropology and Folklore.djvu/317

] feet long by six feet wide, and the stem and stern turned up to the height of fifteen feet. These canoes are all constructed of planks adzed out so as to leave cleats by which they are lashed to curved rib-pieces of mangrove wood, which give the necessary stiffness to the vessel; the edges of the planks being sewn together with sinnet, and the seam

covered with cement. In a war canoe a rest for spears and other weapons is set up amidships, and various tindalo