www.researchgate.net/publicat... Thanks to Dr. Takuya Nagaoka for this film on Mwoakilloa canoe in 1994. Thanks to Adam Thompson for uploading video online vimeo.com/38971749 .
I'm so happy to finaly see this documentary...I see my Grandfather Robert Joel (RIP) in this video. in one of my rare calls home, he told me all about how they build this canoe and then sail her to Pohnpei. told me that he was in the boat fallowing the canoe..Sadly not long after that he pass..This video bring back so much memories.....
@@PasiRena i don't know of the song firsthand and was asking hoping to learn about it... not every voyage would have a song, but for a navigator to give another navigator directions, they would make a song that tells a story linking the constellations as they rise on the horizon during the trip.
Tree cut down is bread fruit tree not hardwood, fast growing light wood like balsa these skills are being lost in Polynesia. Tonga virtually forgotten. Thank you for this
These similar skills are used til today in the Marshall Islands. The chief canoe are the only ones that are forgotten after the German during the World War One came to colonize the islands as their territorial sites and had forbid all Marshallese people to travel.
aaaahhuuuhh anjoawe mwahmwa pwanah sihkei...kalangan en inje ma upload..i miss him dearly...he is already seventy some years old at this time, but he works like a 30 year old..:)..i love you mwahmwa Moses...jeiloak mwehu..
It's really amazing to see all the villagers working together to preserve their history. Back before materialism came to tribal peoples they could fulfill their daily needs very easily and there was much more time to do things like build a boat and all the jobs that go into the process. If only our ancestors had been able to reject materialism maybe we wouldn't be stuck in our homes worrying about how to pay the rent during lockdown.
I'm so happy to finaly see this documentary...I see my Grandfather Robert Joel (RIP) in this video. in one of my rare calls home, he told me all about how they build this canoe and then sail her to Pohnpei. told me that he was in the boat fallowing the canoe..Sadly not long after that he pass..This video bring back so much memories.....
did he ever teach you the song to sail Mokil to Pohnpei?
@@longpinkytoes is there a song about sailing mokil to pohnepi?
@@PasiRena i don't know of the song firsthand and was asking hoping to learn about it... not every voyage would have a song, but for a navigator to give another navigator directions, they would make a song that tells a story linking the constellations as they rise on the horizon during the trip.
@@longpinkytoes Kalahngan!
@@PasiRena komw dehr kupwurohki :D
Tree cut down is bread fruit tree not hardwood, fast growing light wood like balsa these skills are being lost in Polynesia. Tonga virtually forgotten. Thank you for this
pandanus gives it's wood to make kubaak,
and it's leaves are woven to make ujela. :D
These similar skills are used til today in the Marshall Islands. The chief canoe are the only ones that are forgotten after the German during the World War One came to colonize the islands as their territorial sites and had forbid all Marshallese people to travel.
aaaahhuuuhh anjoawe mwahmwa pwanah sihkei...kalangan en inje ma upload..i miss him dearly...he is already seventy some years old at this time, but he works like a 30 year old..:)..i love you mwahmwa Moses...jeiloak mwehu..
It's really amazing to see all the villagers working together to preserve their history. Back before materialism came to tribal peoples they could fulfill their daily needs very easily and there was much more time to do things like build a boat and all the jobs that go into the process. If only our ancestors had been able to reject materialism maybe we wouldn't be stuck in our homes worrying about how to pay the rent during lockdown.
You can watch the full version of the Mwoakilloa sailing canoe building at ruclips.net/p/PL7c_0z1tMBDok-5YzR2zyyakwnu3I_9Y1.
Interesting. How were trees cut down and then made into canoe in ancient times before metal was introduced?
stone axes and adzes can cut down a tree, burning the cut a few times helps too.
Wonderful documentary! Can you please share information as to when this was filmed and where it is archived?
This was filmed in 1994 on Mwoakilloa Atoll in Micronesia: ruclips.net/p/PL7c_0z1tMBDok-5YzR2zyyakwnu3I_9Y1
Majidraak waan Rijaluit hey brother on Mokil your canoe building design, etc, dame similar to the Rimajol canoe mmmm yea iakwe n God blesses you guys
Mwoakillese has mixture of many islanders in them and their canoes has Marshallese design in it with others.
@@MwoakilloaDardo Mwoakillese people adopted many cultural elements from other islanders, which enriched their culture.
very good video, but most disappointed not to see the vessel in its entirety.
"Dog Slayer" @0:25 ??