This video (vimeo/40331302) features on the Warasap Canoe Documentation Project in 1994, which was conducted by Hiroyuki Saito (Deputy 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 high chiefs canoe (warasap) significantly differs from the ordinary canoe in the ornamental lashings and painted and carved decorations used on the former. This required a very large amount of labor input and specialized skills, which only a high chief could mobilize. The late Kasiano Santos (Soulikin Mwakot, Nahnpei Kitti) was the last builder of warasap. 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. This video was edited by Adam Thompson, then FSM Archaeologist.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 17:28:56 +0000
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