The proper name of the canoe shown here is "Alingano Maisu."

The great sailer was from the Philippines the LAPITA austronesian people were basically were the micronesian ancestors then we sailed to melanesia to polynesia the polynesian are mixed with filipina and papuan melanesian 25OO years ago the micronesian and Polynesian might get offended. The aboriginal austronesian settled and arrived in our 7500 islands then austronesian history began our native islanders FILIPINO NEGRITOS aeta are the original filipino KZread filipino negritos aeta Also our filipino sea gypsies badjao live in the blue ocean waters in Indonesia and Malaysia they are filipino they can speak Indonesian and Malaysian and 2 filipinos dialect They can dive 50 feet almost ten minutes and are greatest sailers KZread the lapita voyage By jamea wharham Im proud of what we did filipinos DNA and canoe and pottery links us Reminder we have 7000 islands micronesia and Polynesia are micro islands they will say your asian out of disrespect were the original islander micronesia use to belong to the Philippines palua is so close to the Philippines if they say there related to Indonesian well our southern islands are filipino.muslims near Indonesia the filipino.malay muslims looks exactly.like.indonesian people i.never knew i can understand some Indonesian dialects austronesian and Philippines have 100 austronesian languages the austronesian family even though filipino last names are spanish and words the numbers in filipino are almost the same.in polynesia and mata is eye 5 is lima man lalaki fire is afi wrong is sala