pika-pina

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Gaps between undressed stones were chinked with smaller rocks and pebbles or stuffed with raw pika-pina.

The Deluge Drivers Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987
Somehow the damaged starboard bow runner held, wrapped in enough tough pika-pina rope to rig another whole ship.

The Deluge Drivers Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987
He waved at the ice sheet speeding past, the broad monotonous plain of pika-pina.

The Deluge Drivers Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987
Worn lengths of pika-pina cable were cut away and replaced with fresh.

The Deluge Drivers Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987
Sails woven from pika-pina fabric began to unfurl.

The Deluge Drivers Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987
Spare clothing, extra pika-pina rigging, everything we've got.

The Deluge Drivers Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987
"The pika-pina, " Hunnar had explained, -protects us from attack from the west, out of the wind.

Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974
It would have been easier to gather pika-pina than cut trees, but that tough ground cover held far too much moisture to burn very well.

Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974
From there it dropped in a long, gentle sweep to the ice and a great field of pika-pina.

Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974
Camouflaged barriers of rock and lines of sharpened stakes appeared, tied together by cables of barbed pika-pina rope.

Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974