Carved wooden paddle
- Museum number:
- 11-43918
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110043918
- Alternate number:
- 2 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.4428
- Description:
- club, overall diamond shape head w/ four concave diamonds at top; dark reddish brown; hardwood; polished; l. 72 cm. max. w. head 13 cm.
- Donor:
- Joan Wescott
- Collection place:
- New Caledonia
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Melanesia, New Caledonia attr.
- Culture or time period:
- Melanesian
- Collector:
- Joan Wescott
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Carvings (visual works)
- Function:
- 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
- Accession date:
- July 25, 1989
- Department:
- Oceania
- Dimensions:
- length 72 centimeters and width 13 centimeters
- Images:
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