The Piro canoe.A preliminary Sheets ethnographic account.The article provides a preliminary account of the canoes made and used by the Piro (Yine) people of the Urubamba river in Peruvian Amazonia, with a particular focus on the processes of construction, naming and crewing.The canoe, among these people, is a basic model of affinity, both male-female and male-male.The canoe MINT SOAP and canoe journeys are a basic social model of space for these people, serving a symbolic function that usually falls to house and village space in indigenous Amazonian societies.