This video (vimeo/38971749) features on the Mwoakilloa Sailing Canoe Documentation Project in 1994, which was conducted by Takuya Nagaoka (Representative Director of Pasifika Renaissance), then a JOCV volunteer, working at the Pohnpeia Lidorukini Museum under the Pohnpei State Historic Preservation Office as a JOCV volunteer. The project, which was funded by Federal Historic Preservation Fund grants administered by U.S. National Park Service, was aimed at documenting this dying art and passing it down to younger generations on Mwoakilloa (formerly Mokil) Atoll. The Mwoakillese canoe building technology was originally learned from the Marshallese drifters, but the Mwoakillese people add new features to improve its performance in the early historic period. Three sailing canoe building class instructors, Apiner Jim, Moses Henry and Robert Joel, have been passed away since then, and only two elders in their 70s are capable of building one now. This video was edited by Adam Thompson, then FSM Archaeologist.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:04:35 +0000
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