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(Redirected from Ungalawa) Traditional Swahili outrigger canoe
Ngalawa from Chumbe Island, Tanzania

The ngalawa or ungalawa is a traditional, double-outrigger canoe of the Swahili people living in Zanzibar and the Tanzanian coast. It is usually 5–6 m long and has two outriggers, a centrally-placed mast (often inclining slightly towards the prow) and a single triangular sail. It is used for short-distance transport of goods or people, as well as a coastal fishing boat. It can be classified as a variation of another common type of Swahili canoe known as ''mtumbwi'' [uk].

The name and the outrigger technology was adapted from the outrigger lakana of the Austronesian Malagasy people of Madagascar.

See also

References

  1. Small Tri Guy. "Jim Brown's Coming Seaclipper 20 trimaran (the "Janganda")". Small Trimarans.
  2. Claude Allibert (2011). "Austronesian migration and the establishment of the Malagasy civilization: contrasted readings in linguistics, archaeology, genetics and cultural anthropology". In Tim Curtis (ed.). Islands as Crossroads: Sustaining Cultural Diversity in Small Island Developing States. UNESCO. p. 45. ISBN 9789231041815.


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