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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 220705, member: 2844&quot;]Different islands in the archipelago have different styles, and even different styles for different purposes. This is a prow from a Kula canoe from Laughlin Island, one of the Trobriand Islands. Kula was the inter-island ceremonial trade ring.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://files.thecobbs.com/a38_lot118_6-max.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is the kind of style that first came to mind when I saw the boat: a little shark from the Trobriand Islands, and a turtle from the Solomon Islands. Both tourist pieces with traditional mother of pearl inlay. The Solomon Islanders also use dark wood, but to my knowledge none of the islands use buffalo horn, simply because it is not a native material.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]65420[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]65421[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, Maori art is very different from the boat, far more sophisticated, and again, no buffaloes. Their inlay is usually not white mother of pearl but paua, a New Zealand kind of abalone.</p><p>I think we should look toward Asia for the origin of the boat.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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