Model canoe

Museum number:
11-45018
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
33.23 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4599
Object count:
1
Description:
boat model, outrigger, wood; double pointed hull, hollowed in center, with raised gunwales, inset with 2 round shells; tow round shells inlaid near prows; cross pieces lashed to gunwales and to outrigger at uprights; outside of larger hull inlaid with shells in diamond and circle patterns.
Donor:
Redding Museum of Art and History
Collection place:
Penrhyn Atoll, Northern Cook Islands, Cook Islands
Verbatim coll. place:
Oceania, Polynesia, Cook Island, Tongareva
Culture or time period:
Polynesian
Collector:
Richard Evansizer
Collection date:
1952-1963
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Shell (animal material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Canoes and Models (concepts)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Context of use:
Collected while Evansizer served in Marshall and Cook Islands with the Atomic Energy Project. Made by school children as learning project and sold as souvenir. Probably repaired with fingernail polish; mast missing, per donor.
Department:
Oceania
Dimensions:
length 31.6 centimeters and width 19 centimeters
Loans:
S1995-1996 #16a: SFO Museum (May 29, 1996–October 20, 1999)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Model canoe, accession number 11-45018, described as boat model, outrigger, wood; double pointed hull, hollowed in center, with raised gunwales, inset with 2 round shells; tow round shells inlaid near prows; cross pieces lashed to gunwales and to outrigger at uprights; outside of larger hull inlaid with shells in diamond and circle patterns.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Model canoe, accession number 11-45018, described as boat model, outrigger, wood; double pointed hull, hollowed in center, with raised gunwales, inset with 2 round shells; tow round shells inlaid near prows; cross pieces lashed to gunwales and to outrigger at uprights; outside of larger hull inlaid with shells in diamond and circle patterns.

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