Kon-Tiki itself was made of nine balsa would tree trunks lashed together with hemp rope.

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The women of the Yakama tribe passed down a unique tradition from generation to generation, using a long rope of hemp twine as a literal timeline.

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The owner, an Indian, sold him all the rope he had in stock: forty yards of braided hemp, which Pereda examined at length, as if looking for loose threads.

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