outrigger

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Observations show the people use narrow outrigger canoes, live in large communal huts, carry spears, bows and arrows, and wear fibre waistbelts, as well as necklaces and headbands.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

A custom paint job on an outrigger canoe on the Ka’anapali coast.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024

She is also an avid athlete who competed internationally in outrigger canoeing, he said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2024

Then the only way in and out of Agutaya is a drenching, two-hour roller coaster ride in an outrigger canoe.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2023

The most important transmissions were of New Guinea shell fishhooks, which spread far into Australia, and of New Guinea outrigger canoes, which spread down the Cape York Peninsula.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond