1884.54.55.5

Collection type

Object

Description

Model paddle for the canoe 1884.54.55 .1. Carved from a single piece of wood, with an oval shaped blade that is carved into a tip. On the upper surface are incised crosses in the centre and at the edges and near to the edge are two rows of resin crosses in a diamond pattern. Decorating the shaft are three bands of red pigment near to the blade and incised lines along the surface. See 1884.54.55 .1 - .9 for the other associated parts. [ASh [OPS move] 10/10/2016]

Geographical reference

Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Union Territory of India)

Asia > Southern Asia > Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Union Territory of India)

Andaman Islands

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Date made: Possibly before 1879

Date collected

?Prior to 1879

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Material Resin Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Incised, Process Painted

Dimensions

Height: max 16 mm, Width: max 43 mm, Length: max 419 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.54.55.5 PR no.: 4/ 9058

Research and responses

It is possible that this object was collected by EH Man. It is not stated in any of the primary sources which object [and where it was] the boat 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]

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