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Va'a
Sign in to savethumb|right|220px|John La Farge 1891 painting of girls carrying a vaʻa at Vaiala, [[Samoa.]]
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Within Vinony's link graph, Va'a is referenced by 327 other articles, and connects out to outrigger canoe, waka and Hōkūleʻa.
Vinony files it under Culture of Samoa, Indigenous boats and Outrigger canoes.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Subclass of
- outrigger canoe
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Sport
- Types of ''vaʻa''
- Samoa
- Construction
- Other meanings
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|right|220px|John La Farge 1891 painting of girls carrying a vaʻa at Vaiala, [[Samoa.]]
Vaʻa is a word in Samoan and Tahitian which means 'boat', 'canoe' or 'ship'. It is cognate with other Polynesian words such as vaka or the Māori word waka. It is also known as the '''Wa'a' in Hawaiian.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Va'a” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.