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ebl-1177	Townsend, Patricia K.	Trees, Knots, and Outriggers: Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring. By Frederick H. Damon. 2017. Berghahn, New York. 375 pp.	2018	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1193	54	54	Discussing the construction of mast, outrigger float, keel, strakes, ribs, rudder, and decorative carvings, Damon returns to the properties of trees that make them suitable or unsuitable for each part of the boat. As an ethnobiologist Damon sees himself as the mediator between two sets of experts on trees: the Pacific Islanders he revisits over a period of forty years, and the botanists in herbaria at Harvard and Lae who work with his voucher specimens.	cache/ebl-1177.pdf	txt/ebl-1177.txt