From: dldecker@mediaone.net
Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980730202149.00822100@se.mediaone.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 20:21:49 -0400
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
Subject: Re: [baidarka] Trukese Paddle and Polynesian pics
In-Reply-To: <35C0B9B5.2B69@totalsports.net>
At 02:21 PM 7/30/98 -0400, Charles Hall wrote:
>I've stuck Craig's "Trukese paddler" up on the web:
>
> http://rtpnet.org/robroy/Images/trukese.jpg
>
>Thus inspired, I dug up some of my grandfather's snapshots from WWII. He
>has a few photos of a visit to the Stewart Islands. Of the seven
>pictures (each about 24K), #7 shows the best view of the paddles:
>
> http://rtpnet.org/robroy/granddad/gd7.gif
>
>#1 shows a portion of an outrigger canoe, and #2 shows what appears to
>be a model of an outrigger canoe in the foreground.
>
> http://rtpnet.org/robroy/granddad/gd1.gif
> http://rtpnet.org/robroy/granddad/gd2.gif
>
>All the photos and some captions are here:
>
> http://rtpnet.org/robroy/granddad/canoe.html
>
>For some reason grandfather labeled this page "Polynesian Women" in the
>scrapbook, instead of "Canoes & paddles"...
>--
>Charles Hall
>Total Sports
>Raleigh, NC USA
>http://info.totalsports.net
>
>
Maybe he was not into canoeing at the time???? Neat pictures, thanks
Dana
