Fulaga, Lau Group, Fiji

By: Kerry

When Pito – master of chainsaw art – wasn’t directly working on the canoe, he would sit on the ground with an adze and fashion tanoas, or kava bowls. He usually sends them off to Suva for sale in the artisan markets and tourist stores, but we asked him if he’d make a couple for us.

The early stages

Pito, his tools and his work

Our tanoa

More detailing to be done

The finished products

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