- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Canoe ornament.
- Long description
- Canoe ornament. Elongated carved single piece of wood, with a stylised human head at one end. Scroll work under the chin. Fixed to a museum display with [1884.62.23] [BH [OPS Move] 10/4/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1881
- Date collected
- ?Prior to 1881
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 395 mm, Width: max 46 mm, Height: max 168 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.62.24 PR no.: 6/ 13082
- Research and responses
Note that the second and third green book entries suggests that Pitt Rivers withdrew this item from South Kensington Museum at some point between 1881 and 1884 and then returned it in July 1884 [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Search terms: Navigation, Figure, Tool, Ornament, Canoe Part
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