- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Model paddle, with a band of string around the shaft. The blade is elongated and tapers to a point. [BH [OPS move] 20/09/2016]
- Geographical reference
- Nicobar Islands
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Edward Horace Man
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1800-1884
- Date collected
- Prior to 1884
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 488 mm, Width: max 344 mm, Height: max 204 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.81.15
- Research and responses
This object is listed in Accession Book VII but is one of those items listed there which were part of the PRM collections before 1884. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Search terms: Navigation, Model, Paddle
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