Paddle
- Museum number:
- 5-7686
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050007686
- Alternate number:
- B-2316 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.2460
- Description:
- Wooden, Jerki paddle; openwork motif of animal, 1 on handle, 3 on blade; carved; scarlet - green and white - Itsekri Yoruba. L = 167.0 cm Evaluation $500.00
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection place:
- Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Africa; Nigeria; Itsekiri
- Culture or time period:
- Itsekiri
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material) (carved)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Carvings (visual works)
- Function:
- 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
- Accession date:
- 1969
- Context of use:
- Ceremonial. Said to be collected circa 1902
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Comment:
- 1961 Berkeley - 25.74 Anthony Hunter TH3- 6121 2994 Adeline St. at Ashby - “ collected ca 1902”cf Sadler, pl. 30, left pp 84-85 from Forcados - Collected in 1901 by CJM Gordon - cf also Balfour - “ Ceremonial Paddles of the Kalabari” in Man, 1917, no.44. USNM “ Itsekiri” See accession envelope and catalogue card for additional information. PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A Mez, 130C
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