Looks very much like a Solomon island canoe, but no, it is a “Tatala” canoe from Taiwan…The history of Polynesia does through Taiwan.

A small canoe of the type “Korakora” from the Molukes archipelago.

A voyaging canoe from the Ninigo Islands, which are a group of 31 islands within the Western Islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismarck_Archipelago

One look at the mast head and it is definiyely a Fijian sailing canoe of the type Thamakau or Kamakao. The topmast or " ndomondomo" endis in a typical two-horned "truck

This is a model of a Fijian drua (double hulled sailing canoe).The drua was the largest and finest sea-going vessel ever designed and built by natives of Oceania

The model is at the Te Papa Tongareva Museum of New Zealand .

This is a very rare magic lantern slide showing a Fiji drua near a beach in Fiji

This is a beautiful and helpful line drawing of a Fiji Drua illustrated in the book VOYAGERS by Herb Kawainui Kane.

A small but very old Fijian Drua model

The float connected to the outriggers by three pairs of stanchions would indicate that the canoe is from Fiji. The difference between a Fiji Proa (Kamakau) and a Fiji Drua is that the Drua consists of 2 hulls, whereas a Proa is a single-hull canoe with outriggers and float.

A scale model I built several years ago purchased by a collector in Taiwan. This collector visited the Suva Museum, Fiji, where he was captivated by the Drua displayed there. As a result, he commissioned me to create a model of it.

This is the last surviving original drua canoe on display at the Suva Museum. Suva is the capital of the South Pacific island nation of Fiji.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji

A Fijian canoe of the type “Takia”.

A small incomplete model canoe. The railings would indicate it to be Fijian.

This looks to be a very old, simplified Fiji Camakau.

Fiji camakau racing

Fiji voyaging canoe of the type “vakau” very common on the island of Lau. They were built to be used on the high sea.

This is the Fiji voyaging canoe in the “Fiji House” at the Polynesian Cultural Center, Lai’e, Oahu, Hawaii. The canoe is an old, original vessel of which I made a model of it, right down to scale, some years ago.

Fiji camakau canoe

Fiji Camakau canoe

Fiji fishing canoe of the type camakau

Fiji Drua acquired by the Stiftung Humbold Forum at Berliner Schloss. Note the drums or “lali” at the foot of the canoe.

One of the ways to find out whether a canoe is of a Fiji type, look no further than the masthead, the “ndomondomo,” which looks like a tow-horned spear. But a same shape masthead was also used on some Tonga voyaging canoe.

Small camakau fishing canoe

The life-size drua on display at the Suva Museum in Fiji is a remarkable example of the most significant and finest sea-going vessel ever designed and built by the indigenous peoples of Oceania prior to European contact. Its construction features an entirely plank-built design, distinguishing it from outrigger boats.

A famous painting by Herb Kawainui Kane illustrating a Drua sailing on the high seas.

Line drawing of a Fijian Camakau or Tamatau.

The Sema Makawa canoe at the New Zealand Maritime Museum.

A beautiful and well made Fiji Drua model

This picture was taken By F.H. Dufty of NAVUKINIVANUA - “The turner of the land” - one of the last of the great drua or hulled-outrigger voyaging canoes of the nineteenth century, and the last to be owned by Ratu Seru Cakobau, anchored just off Nasova on the eastern shore of Ovalau. Given the prestige and the ceremonial dress of the many high chiefs visible in this picture, the occasion is probably that of 20 November 1877, when Navukinivanua was sailed from Bau to Nasova and symbolically presented by Cakobau, together with a big rootstock of yaqona, to Lady Gordon.
In this picture the kata or hull of the canoe is towards the camera, with the smaller outrigger hull or cama masked by it. The mualevu, or “big prow” is to the right, the mualailai or “little prow” to the left. The coconut leaf matting sunshades which were usually rolled down in port are still rolled up, giving a fine view into the deckhouse, which is open to the kata side, the kata allways being kept to leeward in sailing. The mast or vana has been hauled upright from the raking position it is held in when sailing, and the sail and yards rolled and laid along the deck platform, forming a comfortable seat for Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, eldest son of Ratu Cakobau, who is wearing a white iwabale shoulder sash and has his right leg cocked over a coil of heavy vau bark rope towards the left hand duruduru or pilaster of the deckhouse, with lesser chiefs left of him. A group of chiefs wearing white barkcloth ivauvau hair-wrappers are seated on deck before the deckhouse, the bearded old man to the right of the mast being one of Cakobau’s brothers, Cakobau himself is the old man with the resplendent side whiskers (such as he favoured in 1876-77) wearing a shirt and a smoked masikuvui hair-wrapper, who is sitting just to the right of the lali slit drum that is positioned across the right hand outside end of the deckhouse. Several men stand posing on the prow, pretending to pole the canoe along. [Fergus Clunie, 14/7/2003, from record P.27781.VH, JD 7/1/2012]

Fijian fisherman and turtles. A postcard from the 30s.

A fishing canoe model representing those found in the Humboldt Bay, New-Guinea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yos_Sudarso_Bay

A nice model of a Huon Gulf canoe. This type of canoe is considered one of the most beautiful in Melanesia, known for its excellent nautical qualities. Some of these canoes were up to 60 feet long. On the islands of Tami and Siassi, they were called "wang," but nowadays, we mostly refer to them as "Siassi" canoes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huon_Gulf

Canoe model from the Geelvink Bay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenderawasih_Bay

The Taku canoes are very similar to those from the islands of Leuaniua and Nuku-manu.

Showing the hull of a Aua Island canoe . 3rd from the top