1884.54.31

Collection type

Object

Description

Wooden model Norwegian fishing boat with four oars, a baler, fishing reel, and line with attached hooks and lead weight.

Long description

Varnished model wooden Norwegian fishing boat, made using the clinker method of boat building with the planks of the hull overlapping and held together with metal rivets. At one end of the boat the floorboards are fixed, at the other end are two removable hatches with room underneath for storage. There boat has three seats, or thwart boards. The model consists of the following detachable parts: the hull [.1]; a lead weight fishing line [.2]; a baler or drum shovel [.3]; two hatch covers [.4-.5]; four wooden oars [.6-.9]; and a wooden fishing reel or winch [.10]. The fishing line [.2] is made from a carved piece of wood threaded with string with two metal hooks attached, plus a curved length of metal with an attached lead weight. The line [.2] presumably attaches to the wooden reel [.10] and forms the Seine fishing net.

Geographical reference

Norway

Europe > Northern Europe > Norway

Cultural groups

Norwegian

Person

Maker Mikkel Lysenkappen

Field collector Great International Fisheries Exhibition, London

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1883

Date collected

Prior to 1884

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Material Metal, Material Metal, Material String, Material Lead Metal, Process Carved, Process Tied, Process Varnished, Process Incised

Dimensions

Length: max 490 mm, Width: max 148 mm, Height: max 120 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.54.31 PR no.: 8/ 913

Research and responses

Note that the second green book entry is the only one that suggests that this model was supposed to represent a type of Norwegian boat derived from Viking forms. It is not stated in any of the primary sources which object [and where it was] the canoe was modelled on. It was presumably used as example of a missing link in one of the series [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

From the information written on the side of the object this Norwegian model boat from Lysenkappen was made by Mikkel Lysenkappen, a fisherman and Seine Maker from Alverstrommen who exhibited a model boat that was probably this model during the Great International Fisheries Exhibition of 1883 (see http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr/index.php/article-index/12-articles/435-sources/). This Exhibition, held at South Kensington in London, was opened by the Prince of Wales on 12 May 1883 and ran until 31 October of the same year. Held in the garden of the Royal Horticultural Society and then in Exhibition Road, it was visited by over two million people. The model boat that probably was this one is the first model listed under no. 32 on page 309 of the official catalogue where it was described as follows: '32. LYSENKAPPEN, MIKKEL, T., Alverstommen, Fisherman and Seine Maker. Models (1) of a Herring Seine-Boat, with Seine and Outfit'. [ZM 22/10/2015]

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