Schnitzen
Wood carving, historically, has been an important art of the Milne Bay area. The Milne Bay peoples created canoes, called "waga". When Charles Gabriel Seligman visited the area in 1904, he described the "waga" as playing "such an important part in the life of the district," and being a "decorative art" that has "reached its highest expression in the carvings of the ornaments for the prows of the "waga"." He also noted that they used similar designs on gourds from lime trees.