1942.13.525.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Paddle carved in shape of a crocodile at one end. The blade end has a serrated edge and decorative open work. [SM (Verve) 09/12/2013]

Long description

Paddle carved in shape of a crocodile at one end. The blade end has a serrated edge and decorative open work. The paddle is made from a piece of wood stamped in several places with a circular stamp containing a crown and the number '24'. It is stained or varnished a dark colour. [SM (Verve) 09/12/2013]

Geographical reference

Nigeria

Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria

Southern Nigeria Niger Delta Rivers State Brass

Cultural groups

Ijo

Person

Field collector Mervyn David Waldegrave Jeffreys

PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1932

Date collected

December 1932

Acquisition information

Donated: 1942

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Material Varnish, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Perforated, Process Stamped, Process Incised, Process Varnished, Process Stained

Dimensions

Width: max 94 mm, Length: max 1130 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1942.13.525.1 Other numbers: 225 525a Other PRM accession number: 1942.13.525a

Research and responses

Brass - town and minor port, Rivers state, southern Nigeria, on the Gulf of Guinea, at the mouth of the Brass River (in the Niger Delta). A traditional fishing village of the Nembe branch of the Ijo people [Encyclopaedia Britannica on line][AP 28/6/2001]

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