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Term: outrigger

"Usually only related to the Torres Strait Islands area. A multi-hull vessel, main hull canoe form, with a wooden log on either side of the hull attached by beams, for stability."

Vessels

The Aboriginal Single Outrigger Canoe around the time it was collected

Cairns Aboriginal Single Outrigger Canoe

c1920

The Mapoon Indigenous Double Outrigger in storage.

Mapoon Indigenous Double Outrigger Canoe

1896

Bow view of the single outrigger in storage

Single Outrigger Indigenous Canoe