Plate XXVIII Sail Making Within a couple of hours a number of men perform this enormous task of sewing together small bands of pandanus leaf (see Div. III and next Chap. Div. II ) till they form a sail. Among the workers there is an albino.
Plate XXIX Rolls of Dried Pandanus Leaf This is the material of which the sail is made. The bisila (pandanus streamer) is made of a softer variety of pandanus leaf, bleached at a fire.
After the wayugo has been ritually brought in, the lashing of the canoe begins. First of all the ribs are lashed into position then the planks, and with this the body of the canoe is ready. This takes a varying time, according to the number of people at work, and to the amount of tallying and adjusting to be done at the
