Mtepe
![Shungwaya: an inexact replica mtepe[1] built in 2003 and displayed at the House of Wonders Museum in Stone Town, Zanzibar.](/Images/godic/202501/28/House_of_wonders_inside_zanzibar0948.jpg")
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The mtepe is a boat associated with the Swahili people (the word "boat" in the Bantu Swahili language being mtepe). The mtepe's planks are held together by wooden pegs and coir, so it is a sewn boat designed to be flexible in contrast to the rigid vessels of western technique.