Canoe prow

Museum number:

11-37763

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Accession number:

Acc.1915

Description:

canoe prow, carved wood; sawn off front of native canoe; highly elaborated head of crocodile, showing skin texture, eyes, bony ridges on snout, and teeth, which are depicted with an openwork carving treatment

Donor:

Ellsworth La Boyteaux and Mrs. Ellsworth La Boyteaux

Collection place:

Middle Sepik river, East Sepik Province, Momase Region

Culture or time period:

New Guinea, Papua Island

Collector:

Bruce D. Lawes

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Canoe-boards and Carvings (visual works)

Function:

1.4 Transportation

Accession date:

1964

Department:

Oceania

Loans:

S1977-1978 #50: Howe Homestead (City of Walnut Creek) (April 11, 1978–June 7, 1978)