Tikopia’s objects are, because of the size of the island (five square kilometers for a thousand inhabitants), and its isolation, extremely rare in public and private collections. Thus, in the extraordinary collections of the Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford, England, there are only four objects of Tikopia, the Fuller collection of the Field Museum in Chicago having only two. The extraordinary Rakaitonga canoe acquired by the War Memorial Museum in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1916 (ref. 12992, 1885, 13658) is composed of the same type of element which is ligated between the bow and the hull through the holes fasteners on the sides of the plate. The object presented here being of comparable proportion to that of the Museum, one can imagine that the whole canoe must have measured in the nine meters long. The line of this canoe element recalls the old Rei puta Maori pendants from New Zealand and particularly the rare examples dating from the period 1300-1600.