Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Transportation Vehicles (hierarchy name)
5. vehicles (transportation)
6. watercraft
7. [watercraft by specific type]
8. [watercraft by construction]
9. sewn boats

Anotations

Scope note:

Sewn boats of East Africa origin, about thirty or fourty tons, and having a long curved prow, and rigged with a square sail of coarse matting. No longer used, mitepe were mainly engaged in traffic along the section the Swahili Coast that lies between Zanzibar and the Lamu Islands.