The annual Heiva celebration includes outrigger canoe races, the ultimate Polynesian sport. The races celebrate an ancient and noble tradition. Similar canoes have carried people, dignitaries, and warriors from island to island, braving weather, waves, and currents. It took a wayfinder with special navigating skills to find islands that lived well beyond the horizon. While large, double-hulled canoes carried people, animals, and supplies to the distant Islands, voyages of dozens of miles through open ocean were regularly completed in canoes little bigger than the ones in the photo above. The canoe pictured below is believed to have been used for transportion of Tahitian royalty.
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