Accession No
2011.88 A-C
Description
canoe; model canoe - A: Wooden model canoe with single outrigger, platform and pandanus matting, and steering paddle attached by sinnet cord. The lines are made of plaited sinnet fibre sail. B: Wooden bailer. C: stick- use unknown. Condition: Fair- some sinnet lines damaged
Place
Oceania; Polynesia; Fiji
Period
Source
Kreyer, Patricia [donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
2011.88 A-C
Cultural Affliation
Material
Wood; Basketry; Plant
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (CMS Context)
Donated by Patricia Kreyer to whom it was presented by the High Commissioner of Fiji (sometime between 1982 and 1998) after a project in which the staff and children from King's School in Ely worked on an exhibition on Fiji for Save the Children. Donor was at the time the Headmistress of Acremont House, the Pre-prep and Nursery School.
Event Date 13/6/2011
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
A: Wooden model canoe with single outrigger, platform and pandanus matting, and steering paddle attached by sinnet cord. The lines are made of plaited sinnet fibre sail. B: Wooden bailer. C: stick- use unknown. Condition: Fair- some sinnet lines damaged
Event Date 13/6/2011
Author: maa
FM:263838
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