Context (Found together / assemblage)
ROS 1920.308 Z.1-16 are all parts of the same canoe. In addition ROS 1920.308 A-X are the accompanying paddles for the canoe and ROS 1920.308 Y.1-3 and the ornaments which would have been attached to the canoe.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Labels & Markings)
Written in black ink near the shaft terminus reads: '20.308 H'.
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt

Context (Amendments / updates)
The catalogue card notes that ROS 1920.308[A-Z] are 'Roscoe 1911 Unregistered' objects. It is likely that this note means that the objects were collected in 1911 but not accessioned into the museum collection until 1920.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for ROS 1920.308 A-Z: '...The (24) paddles (these have been labelled A-X) are spear-shaped...'.
Event Date 1920
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Spear-shaped paddle.
Event Date 16/8/2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Roscoe Collection catalogued in 1920 was given numbers 1920.1 - 1920.480. These are not Accession Register numbers, and conflict with numbers allocated to other artefacts accessioned in 1920. They do not appear under any other number in any Accession Register and the only documentation for them is their catalogue cards. In 2001 they were given the temporary suffix ‘/Roscoe’ to distinguish them. This has now been replaced with the prefix ‘ROS’.
Event Date 4/1/2022
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Wooden paddle with a cylindrical shaft and a pointed oval blade; one side is flat, the other bevelled. Evidence of historic damage to blade. There is an unknown dark red substance upon the object, particularly the blade.
Event Date 4/1/2022
Author: Jane Pettitt