This photo, taken by plantation manager Harry Dexter in Papua around 1910 - 1915, shows the arrival of a trading canoe - a floating supermarket of the time.
Photo: Harry Dexter Collection of Photographs, PMB Photo 2/32, © Pacific Manuscripts Bureau; reproduced by permission.
Young South Pacific islanders have taken up the challenge of traditional navigation again, and South Pacific navigation is again taught in the Carolines. Using traditional navigation this transport canoe sailed from Truk in the Federated States of Micronesia to Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea in 1980 to participate in the South Pacific Festival of Arts.
Photo: © M. Tomczak, Creative Commons license
National Geographic Society (1973) Men, Ships and the Sea. Washington.