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PaePae Waʻa
Canoe Ladders
Harry Wishard Gallery
Harry Wishard Gallery
Harry Wishard Gallery
Photos from "the Hawaiian Canoe" by Tommy Holmes
Bishop Museum
Found mostly along the rocky cliff shorelines of Puna, Hamakua, and Kona of Hawaiʻi Island and Hana on Maui,
these ingenious wooden ladders allowed canoes to be landed in places, that otherwise, would have been impossible to land a canoe.
Kauhaualeʻa Puna 1930
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