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1887.1.380

Wooden canoe baler. Undecorated. The baler is perforated with a small hole towards the baling end. [JP 25/7/2002]

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1887.1.380

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Collection type
Object
Description
Wooden canoe baler. Undecorated. The baler is perforated with a small hole towards the baling end. [JP 25/7/2002]
Long description
Canoe baler carved from one piece of wood. The T-shaped handle is connected to the edges of the baler at three points. [JU 23/04/2013]
Date / Period
Date made: Before 09/08/1769
Date collected
Between 13 April and 9 August 1769
Acquisition information
Loaned: 1886
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant
Dimensions
Length 410 mm approx, Width 145 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1887.1.380
Associated publications
Discussed on page 29 of 'The Material Culture of Ancient Tahiti', by Roger Rose (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, Ph.D. thesis, 1971): 'A bailer in the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford, resembles the British Museum specimen [Oc,TAH.6] except in having a slightly constricted mouth and a more delicate handle.' [JC 2 11 2012] Illustrated (drawing) as figure 8-7 on page 199 of Ethnography, Volume 1 of Ancient Tahitian Society (3 vols), by Douglas L. Oliver (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1974). Captioned (same page) as 'Wood bailer, length 40 cm. Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford.' [JC 26 6 2003] For an account of the collection of which this is a part, see 'An Interim Report on a Previously Unknown Collection from Cook's First Voyage: The Christ Church Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford', by Jeremy Coote, in Journal of Museum Ethnography, no. 16 (2004), pp. 111-21. This item is listed on page 116. Copy of article in RDF: Biographies: Banks.) [JC 8 4 2004] Listed on page 22 and illustrated in colour as Figure 28 on page 15 of Curiosities from the Endeavour: A Forgotten Collection—Pacific Artefacts Given by Joseph Banks to Christ Church, Oxford after the First Voyage, by Jeremy Coote (Whitby: Captain Cook Memorial Museum, 2004). (Copies of exhibition leaflets, poster, catalogue, etc. in RDF: Biographies: Banks.) [JC 14 4 2004; JC 25 6 2004] See also 'Forgotten Treasures from Cook's First Voyage', by Jeremy Coote and Sophie Forgan, in Cook's Log, Vol. XXVII, no. 2 (April 2004), pp. 4-6. (Copy in RDF: Biographies: Banks.) [JC 25 6 2004] See also 'Curiosities from the Endeavour: A Forgotten Collection', by Jeremy Coote, The Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum Newsletter, no. 49 (July 2004), pp. 6-7. (Copy in RDF: Biographies: Banks.) [JC 1 9 2004] See also 'Uncovered: "Lost" Treasures from the South Seas', by Julie Webb, in Limited Edition [supplement to the Oxford Times], number 215 (December 2004), pp. 31-33. This item is illustrated in colour on page 33 and can be seen in its storage drawer in the colour illustration on page 31. (Copy in RDF: Biographies: Banks.) [JC 15 12 2004] For an account of the history of the collection of which this is part, see 'The Cook-Voyage Collections at Oxford, 1772–1775', by Jeremy Coote, in Jeremy Coote (ed.), Cook-Voyage Collections of 'Artificial Curiosities' in Britain and Ireland, 1771–2015 (MEG Occasional Paper No. 5), Oxford: Museum Ethnographers Group (2015), pp. 74–122. (Copy in RDF: Researchers: Jeremy Coote (Cook-Voyage Collections).) [JC 9 6 2016]

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