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"The Shark Strikes at Sundown"
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Rising to the scent of a basket of rotten meat, a shark is lured into a weighted noose slung between the hulls of a double canoe. In the painting the line is payed out as the shark continues moving forward. A moment later the line will be jerked taut and the canoe will be taken on a wild ride. After the shark tires, another noose can be slipped over its tail, and the fish pulled backward until it drowns. The belief that sharks feed closer to the surface when the sun is lower in the sky cautions many Pacific Islanders against taking a sunset swim.

Page 21, Voyagers

Words and Images excerpted from Voyagers by Herb Kawainui Kane.

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