- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Model canoe paddle. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 22/3/2005]
- Cultural groups
- Macusi
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1941
- Date collected
- By 1941
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 03/1941
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 650 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1941.3.82
- Research and responses
Related Documents File - See 'List of Macusi Native Indian Curios from Rupununni, British Guiana. Presented by the wife of the late Rev. James Williams. A.K.C. F.R. Hist: S. Missionary to these Indians for 5 years.' Handwritten note at the bottom of the list: 'The page numbers on the cards refer to the pages in "Among the Indians of Guiana" by Im Thurn. Where quotations are given concerning most of these curios.' [GI 19/12/2001]
Search terms: Model, Navigation, Paddle
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