The museum collection includes several canoe type models made by the late Palauan master carver Imeong Etibek, collected by Shallum, Beches, and Ngiratkel Etpison. In 1998 the museum commissioned a life-sized traditional sailing Kotraol canoe for display in the museum. The last remaining canoe builder in Palau, the late Ilapsis Edeluchel Eungel, then in his late 80’s, designed and carved the canoe for the museum with assistance from museum carver Enrico Soliman.