canoe-ornament
- Museum number
- Oc1906,1013.257
- Description
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Canoe ornament carved of wood. Features curvilinear designs carved in relief on a double-lobed, flat form with a single, pointed projection below. Three birds carved in the round; one on the top of each lobe, one perched inbetween the lobes.
- Curator's comments
- No locality given in register. Stored as Massim on stylistic grounds.JH 9/7/2002.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1906
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired during the Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1903-1904.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1906,1013.257