bailer
- Museum number
- Oc1913,0524.81
- Description
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Wooden canoe bailer, tiheru, with traces of red ochre: manaia on handle, pakura ornamentation on all carving.
- Production date
- 1830s (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 14 centimetres
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Width: 21.50 centimetres
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Depth: 41 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Starzecka, Neich and Pendergrast 2010:
Wooden bailer with traces of red ochre:manaia on handle, pakura ornamentation on all carving.
Provenance: Edge-Partington Collection.
Register: ‘E.P. Album 382’.
Handwritten label: ‘New Zealand canoe bailer No J51 Pl.382 No. 3’ [The reference to Edge-Partington’s Album is probably for comparison, the bailer illustrated there is not 1913.5-24.81.]
Comments: Poverty Bay; 1830s, small, fine, well shaped (RN); eighteenth century (DRS).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1998 27 Jun-1 Nov, London, BM, Maori
2010/11 15 Oct - 18 Sept The Netherlands, Leiden, National Museum of Ethnology,Maori Mana: de kracht van de Maori (the power of the Maori)
- Acquisition date
- 1913
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1913,0524.81