Paddle, double or two bladed for a canoe. Made from two pieces of drift wood joined and lashed together in the centre of the handle with a thong hide. [ASh [OPS move] 03/10/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Paddle, double or two bladed for a canoe. Made from two pieces of drift wood joined and lashed together in the centre of the handle with a thong hide. [ASh [OPS move] 03/10/2016]
Long description: Paddle, double or two bladed for a canoe. Made from two pieces of drift wood joined and lashed together in the centre of the handle with a thong hide. Strengthened here by an iron pin and a walrus tusk. Each blade is edged with narrow rounded strips of bone, securely fastened with small bone and whalebone pegs to prevent splitting and probably as a guard against injury by ice. The wood at one end of the paddle is made up in lengths with of oak. In one blade several good sized round holes have been stopped up with plugs of wood. [ASh [OPS move] 03/10/2016]
Geographical reference: Canada
Northern America > North America > Canada; Hudson Strait
Cultural groups: Inuit (Greenland); Inuit
Person: Field collector Francis Harding; Field collector HMS Griper; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: On or before 1824
Date collected: ?On or before 1824
Acquisition information: Transferred: 11/03/1886
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Bone, Material Animal Sinew, Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Iron Metal, Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Material Whale Bone Animal, Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Plaited
Dimensions: Width: max 68 mm, Height: max 58 mm, Length: max 2625 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.790 Other numbers: 320 790

Search terms: Navigation, Paddle

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