Description (CMS Description)
[From catalogue card Z 6310:] 'Paddle of soft wood with mother of pearl inlay in fish design'.
Event Date 1/10/2013
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card Z 6310 notes [typed in black ink:] 'Z 6310/ Solomon Islands/ Melanesia/ Paddle of soft wood with mother of pearl inlay in fish design'. Red circular sticker top right corner of catalogue card.

Event Date 1/10/2013
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Exhibited: On display (Left Grid: No. 15.) in Gifts and Discoveries, LKS Gallery between May 25 2012 and February 18 2013, R.Hand 24/04/2012'. However, the paddle may have been exhibited incorrectly under the wrong accession number Z 5169.
Event Date 6/10/2013
Author: Rachel Hand

Context (CMS Context)
Exhibited: On loan to 2 Temple Place, London, 30 January - 27 April 2014, and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 26 May- 27 July 2014, as part of the UCM exhibition, Discoveries: Art, Science and Imagination. Returned 4 August 2014.
Event Date 6/8/2014
Author: Remke van der Velden

Description (CMS Description)
Paddle of light wood. Long thin blade. The lower part of the head is decorated with a fish head inlaid with pearl shell. Two small inlaid fish on the middle part of the paddle, on each side (one missing a fin). The tip of the blade and handle are blackened. The pommel of the handle is carved as a fish fin. Chipped along the edges of the blades.
Event Date 18/1/2016
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: 'Z 6310' inscribed in black ink on the upper part of the handle. Fragment of a label showing the number '3' (typed) - maybe an auction house label.
Event Date 18/1/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau

Conservation ()
CON.2013.128 |
Event Date 1/3/2016
Author: maa