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Description: | Model illustrating the sewing pattern of boats from Hjortspring, Fiji and the Gilbert and Ellis Islands. This model illustrates the strake to strake sewing pattern found on the 3rd century BC Hjortspring boat, as reconstructed by Rosenburg. It is a "button hole" stitch forming pairs of vertical stitching bars on the outside of the hull and pairs of vertical bars connected by a 'horizontal' inboard. The same pattern is also found on the outrigger canoes of Fiji and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, on both plank boats proper and on extended logboats.
Museum neg: C9289/29 | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Subjects: | patterns (guides) sewing equipment | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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