Context (Related Documents)
Register entry for Z 6125 notes: 'Double ended dance paddle (X.R. 1894.414) /Easter Island/ d.d. J. A. Froude'.
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Description (Labels & Markings)
Old museum label at centre of paddle reads, in brown ink: 'X. R. 1894. No. 1414./ A Dancing Paddle./ Easter Island. /*J.A. Froude, Esq.
Written over the last line is a later accession number 'Z 6435' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Flo Sutton

Context (Related Documents)
Register entry for E 1894.95 notes: ' A flat (?) 'dancing paddle of black wood /Easter Island/ * James Anthony Froude, Esq.'.
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Context (Acquisition Details)
Purchased with money provided to the Museum Accession Fund by James Anthony Froude, Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, and paternal uncle of Baroness Eliza von Hügel, wife of the curator Baron Anotole von Hügel
Event Date 1894
Author: rachel hand

Context (Related Documents)
The 10th annual report (1894) reads, '[...] and (2) a flat (?) ‘ dancing paddle ’ of black wood. Easter Island.'
Event Date 15/11/1894
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Description (Physical description)
Double ended, black wooden, dancing paddle.
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Rapa. Dance-paddle carved of toromiro wood, a flattened 'head' form at one end with stylized facial features merging into a cylindrical hand-grip section broadening out into a flattened 'torso' form ending with a stylized phallus point. A section of wood missing from inside the edge of the 'torso' form.
Event Date 13/10/2022
Author: rachel hand

Description (Labels & Markings)
The number '16' may be written in pencil on the paddle section, but this is indistinct
Event Date 30/3/2022
Author: rachel hand