- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Model lance, single barbed bone point bound to the painted wooden shaft with sinew; part of boat model 1893.39.5 [ZM 23/3/2016]
- Geographical reference
- Tierra del Fuego
- Cultural groups
- Yámana
- Person
- Field collector Robert W. Whaits
- Field collector South American Missionary Society
- PRM source Robert W. Whaits
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1893
- Date collected
- Before 1893
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 07/1893
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Animal Sinew, Material Bone, Process Carved, Process Painted, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Length: max 704 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1893.39.5.5
- Research and responses
Mr R. Whaits was the carpenter and wheelwright of the South American Missionary Society; he joined the Mission about 1875 (DOC)
Identified as Yamana by Penny Dransart on the basis of the crossed-stick basket it contains. 1991.
- Associated publications
- Entire model boat illustrated in black and white as figure 124 on page 109 of Basketmakers Meaning and Form in Native American Baskets, edited by Linda Mowat, Howard Morphy and Penny Dransart (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University if Oxford, Mongraph 5, 1992). Caption reads: ‘Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, Yamaná. Model of a bark canoe with two harpoons, two paddles, a bark baler, three stacked baskets and a crossed-stick fish basket. L: 770 mm. Donated by R. Whaits. 1893.39.5’ [MJD 18/01/2013]
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