page_title: Wa (watercraft)
section_title: Decline
hierarchical_section_title: Wa (watercraft) / Decline
caption_attribution_description: English: Port Lottin, Kusaie Island, Caroline Islands, Natives and native canoe (1899-1900). Sourced from http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/fish7620.htm Note that the very same image is also found elsewhere - eg. http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/ref/collection/fishimages/id/33800 - in cropped form, and credited to others. Interpretation: There is a strong chance this image was taken from the steamship 'Albatross', and that the people depicted were approaching it for trading purposes.
context_page_description: Wa are traditional sailing outrigger canoes of the Caroline Islands. They have a single outrigger. They are similar to the sakman of the Northern Marianas.
context_section_description: After the German–Spanish Treaty of 1899, inter-island voyaging was discouraged by the German New Guinea and Japanese colonial governments and by the commercial availability of trade goods. This discouragement was, however, not very effective.
  A 1966 Peace Corps volunteer reported a fleet of 20 canoes of various sizes, that sailed from five islands within the Woleai atoll to greet an arriving ship, and stated there was only one motorboat at the time. By 1973, only a handful of the canoes were still actively sailed on Woleai, and there were more than 20 motorboats. In 1973 voyaging traditions were reportedly most alive on Satawal, Namonabetiu, and to a lessert extent Nanonuito and Ifalik.
  "Long-distance noninstrument voyaging" was still practiced in the area in the late 1980s.
  In 2012, the charity Habele and community-based organization Waa'gey were supporting younger outer-islanders from Lamotrek to gain experience in wa building.
caption: Wa at Port Lottin, Kusaie Island, 1899–1900
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