canoe; bailer; paddle; model

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canoe; bailer; paddle; model

Object Type: canoe; bailer; paddle; model
Museum number: Oc1881,0519.1.a-j
Description: Model outrigger canoe (a) made of wood with triangular plaited grass sail; together with wooden bailer (b), seven wood paddles (c-i) and wood steering paddle (j).
Production place: Made in: Malakula, Small Islands (Attributed to one of the Small Islands of Malakula by Francis Hickey and Fidel Yoringmal on the basis of the carved prows (2009).)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Vanuatu
Materials: wood; grass
Dimensions: Height: 14.50 centimetres (excluding sail); Width: 36 centimetres (excluding sail); Width: 50 centimetres (including sail lying horizontally); Depth: 74.50 centimetres
Curator's comments: See Christy Correspondence letter from Ina Lenox (sister) regretting BM only able to take canoe'but like most travellers he [her brother] looked up on the various things he brought from the Fijis as great treasure & would not believe there were plenty such in the Museums'
Bibliographic references: Cranstone 1961 / Melanesia: A Short Ethnography (p.102, fig.c, pl.26); Bolton et al 2013 / Melanesia: Art and encounter (p.259, fig.205); Brunt et al, 2012 / Art in Oceania: A new history (p.178); Adams et al 2019 / Reimagining Captain Cook. Pacific Perspectives (p.44) (illus.)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2018-2019, 29 Nov-4 Aug, London, BM, G91, Reimagining Captain Cook: Pacific Perspectives
Acquisition name: Donated by: I Malcolm Lenox
Acquisition date: 1881
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Oc1881,0519.1.a-j
Conservation: Treatment: 09 Oct 2018; Treatment: 10/11/2023

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