Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue cards for 1948.2628 A-B notes ‘Formerly the property of F. Wootton-Isaacson Esq. and given to the Museum by his sister’, Lady Violet Beaumont.
‘A letter dated 11/8/1926 from Charles Woodford to Wootton-Isaacson refers to a model canoe, presumably 1918.2628 A and notes ‘ The canoe was made at the Rubian Lagoon... and as you rightly note a small copy of a tamoko or large head hunting canoe.’
Event Date 8/4/2009
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
[From catalogue card:] '[one of] two paddles belonging to [a] model canoe [1948.2628 A]'.
Event Date 8/4/2009
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: '48.2628 C' inscribed in white ink on the shaft.
Event Date 19/1/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
Paddle of light wood. Leaf-shaped blade. The shaft is circular in section. A raised ring towards the lower part of the shaft and crescent-shaped pommel terminating with human heads.
Event Date 19/1/2016
Author: maa

Context (References)
'In 1948 Lady Violet Beaumont donated fifteen Solomon Islands objects to the museum (MAA 1948.2625-2634)These had been the property of her brother, F.J. Wootton-Isaacson who visited the Solomons in 1903 (Waite (2008:83) names him as a collector for the BM). From these objects I have identified five which were collected by
Woodford and sent by him to Wootton-Isaacson. These are a bow from Bougainville (MAA 1948.2625), a food bowl from Makira (MAA 1948.2626) and a model tomoko with two paddles from Roviana (MAA 1948.2628a-c). It is possible that some other objects within this collection were collected by Woodford, but no direct association has yet been established. Wootton-Isaacson would doubtless have collected objects whilst visiting the Solomons, and eight photographs taken by him during the 1903 visit are held in the MAA photographic archive [51]'

Plate 34: The scale model of a tomoko which was made at Roviana for Frederick Wootton-Isaacson and
sent to him by Woodford. Woodford stated that this model was a faithful representation of the tomoko
captured by him at during a raid on Nusarua, in the Roviana Lagoon in 1900, and used by [Arthur] Mahaffy.
(MAA 1948.2628a-c)

Note 51 1 MAA photographic collection (P.70199.ACH2 , P.70200.ACH2 , P.70201.ACH2 , P.70202.ACH2 ,
P.70203.ACH2 , P.70204.ACH2 , P.70205.ACH2 , P.70206.ACH2)

O'Brien, Aoife (2011) Collecting the Solomon Islands: Colonial encounters & Indigenous experiences in the Solomon Island collections of Charles Morris Woodford and Arthur Mahaffy (1886-1915). Doctoral thesis, University of East Anglia
Event Date 18/3/2021
Author: rachel hand