paddle
- Museum number
- Af1952,26.37
- Description
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Register 1952:
Wooden carved paddle with operwork blade showing a crocodile in the centre, with flanking lizards, and "chain -link" handle.
- Production date
- 1890s (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 170.60 centimetres
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Width: 16 centimetres
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Depth: 4.10 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1952
- Acquisition notes
- Af1952,26.1 to 44 were given by William Main. The register records that the collection was 'made by the donor's father, mainly between 1891 and 1901 in southern Nigeria'. This was the engineer John Main (qv) who worked in the Niger Delta.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1952,26.37
