It is a pity, that the model was not discussed in the general forum section (or did I miss it ?) - I became aware of it only by accident. Very nicely done !
I have a long-standing interest in Pacific craft, though I am more interested in Micro- and Polynesia, than in Melanesia. I gather it was triggered by a visit to the Ethnographical Museum in Berlin in 1974, where they have a significant collection of boats from the region (Germany had protectorates in Melanesia and Micronesia up WWI). The museum moved now to a new location right in the centre of Berlin, but before the move, that involved the part dismantling of the boats, I took a series of pictures: http://www.maritima-et-mechanika.org/maritime/dahlem/dahlem.html.
There is also a large boat from Papua, but I did not take any detailed pictures of that.
As I know the museum director, I was invited to help them with the dismantling and rebuilding of the boats, but due to the geographical distance, I could not take them up on this interesting opportunity.
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It is a pity, that the model was not discussed in the general forum section (or did I miss it ?) - I became aware of it only by accident. Very nicely done !
I have a long-standing interest in Pacific craft, though I am more interested in Micro- and Polynesia, than in Melanesia. I gather it was triggered by a visit to the Ethnographical Museum in Berlin in 1974, where they have a significant collection of boats from the region (Germany had protectorates in Melanesia and Micronesia up WWI). The museum moved now to a new location right in the centre of Berlin, but before the move, that involved the part dismantling of the boats, I took a series of pictures: http://www.maritima-et-mechanika.org/maritime/dahlem/dahlem.html.
There is also a large boat from Papua, but I did not take any detailed pictures of that.
As I know the museum director, I was invited to help them with the dismantling and rebuilding of the boats, but due to the geographical distance, I could not take them up on this interesting opportunity.
Some years ago I built two small-scale models of boats from the collection: http://www.maritima-et-mechanika.org/maritime/models/ellice/ellicecanoe.html
and http://www.maritima-et-mechanika.org/maritime/models/gilbert/gilbertcanoe.html.
Are you planning to build more such models ?