canoe-ornament
- Museum number
- Oc1851,0103.3
- Description
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Carved canoe ornament of wood decorated with red and black pigment.
- Production date
- 19thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 70.50 centimetres
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Width: 44.50 centimetres
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Depth: 4.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Description from Extracts from the British and Medieval Register 1757-1878, p.107:
'3. Wooden curved ornament from end of canoe, partially painted. Length 28 ¾ inches, Height 17 ½ inches'
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2009 20 Mar-23 Aug, Australian National Maritime Museum, Charles Darwin: voyages and ideas that shook the world
- Condition
- Object frozen in Sept. 2009
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Acquisition notes
- From the HMS Rattlesnake expedition of 1846-1850.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1851,0103.3