paddle;
canoe-fitting
- Museum number
- Oc,89+.190
- Description
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Canoe paddle carved from soft brown wood with leaf-shaped blade and knob grip at the end of handle. One side of the blade is flat and the other convex. Traces of yellow decoration. The face of the paddle has the initials RB in white pigment. Beside the 'B' on the face, is an incised faint design of a crocodile.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1889)
- Dimensions
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Height: 156.40 centimetres
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Width: 20 centimetres
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Depth: 4 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Moore, 1984:
Refs: Haddon, A.C., (ed.), 1901-35, 'Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1912, Vol 4: Arts and Crafts: 208.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1889
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,89+.190
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1889C16.190 (old CDMS no.)