paddle
- Museum number
- Am1980,35.2
- Description
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Paddle made of wood (maple).
- Production date
- 1980 (before)
- Dimensions
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Length: 135 centimetres
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Width: 13 centimetres ((max))
- Curator's comments
- Comment by Ruth Holmes Whitehead, March 1985. "Canoe paddle, hand-carved, with incised designs on blade and shaft. Blade decorated with an image of a man with a leister in a canoe, night-fishing, with his woman in a peaked cap to paddle for him, and a birchbark torch to see by. Both peaked cap and canoe are in Maliseet style. A second design shows a woman with braided hair, a hip-length jacket with ribbon applique borders, leggings with elaborated selvedge edges, moccasins; she is standing, with a fish in her right hand and a knife in her left. The paddle handle has a border of lines and cross-hatch, surrounding a Scotch thistle above4 a salmon leister's head."
- Location
- On display (G26/dc2)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1982-1987 Jun-Jan, Museum of Mankind, Thunderbird and Lightning: Indian Life in North America, 1600-1900
1988 15 Jan-1 May, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples
1988 1 Jul-1 Nov, Museum of Civilization, Lorne Building, Ottawa, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples
1999 25 Jun-Present, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Northeastern Woodlands"
- Acquisition date
- 1980
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1980,35.2
