Canoe ornament with carved animal designs, including birds and fish. [IL [OPS Move] 7/4/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Canoe ornament with carved animal designs, including birds and fish. [IL [OPS Move] 7/4/2017]
Long description: Canoe ornament with carved animal designs, including birds and fish. Curved up at right angles in a rough s-shape, ending in tapered points in the shape of bird beaks. One beak appears to have a mammal with four limbs and a tail stood upon it. Painted in black, white and red. Hole drilled in one end of the ornament. [IL [OPS Move] 7/4/2017]
Geographical reference: Indonesia
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Indonesia; West Papua Geelvink Bay
Person: Field collector Alan Herbert Coltart; PRM source Alan Herbert Coltart
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1935
Date collected: By 1935
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1935
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Painted, Process Incised
Dimensions: Length x Width x Height: max 460 x 650 x 62 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1935.71.19

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