Context (Display)
Accompanied by an old exhibition label 'Tikopia c/d R.H. Garvey'.
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Context (Found together / assemblage)
This Tikopian outrigger canoe given by Sir Ronald Garvey to MAA is extensively described in Haddon & Hornell's Canoes of Oceania publication (1937, Volume II, p.54-55), along with three paddles (TEMP.00326-00328) and a bailer (TEMP.00329)
Event Date 1937
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Sir Ronald Garvey probably while based Vanikoro as District Officer for the Santa Cruz Group (1926-1932), or when Assistant Secretary at the Western Pacific High Commission in Suva, Fiji (1932-1938).
Event Date 1937
Author: rachel hand

Context (References)
A drawing of part of the outrigger of this canoe is illustrated in 'Haddon, A.C and Hornell, James (1937). Canoes of Oceania Volume II, p.55., Tikiopian canoe (vaka) (Cambridge Museum); a, attachment; b, top and side views of bailer; c, paddle (drawn by C.S. Lilley).

The description notes: 'The lower part of the dugout bulges slightly and there is a definite edge along at the bottom to serve as a keel. The upper part of the sides is cut to form a board that's slightly inclines inward. This may be termed a false washstrake as it is evidently replaces a true washstrake; it is 6 inches deep and is decorated with inside triangles which are alternately whitened; the ends are cut obliquely the length of the whole is 23 feet 1 inch and the greatest external width is 20 inches, and the opening is from 13 to 15 inches in diameter; the depth is a about 1 foot 5 inches.
The solid portion over the bowel beyond the headboard has a flat sides, a short proximal flat upper surface, and a broad vertical fish tail. The solid portion of the stern is longer than that of the bow and on its median line it has 21 small pyramidal knobs which decrease in size; the aft extremity is not so much like a fish's tail.
The headboard consists of a solid board 3 feet long. The thick aft end is sloped to fit onto the false wash-strake and has a flat triangular upper surface which is raised above the triangular forward boardlike portion, the proximal part of which slopes up gently on each side to a very slight median ridge from which 15 pyramidal knobs project; as these become smaller the distal upper surface becomes flat. The head-board is pegged onto the hole by 4 treenails. The aft decking is very similar; it is a 3'3" long; it's upper distal surface slopes down gently from the higher matt, triangular proximal surface; its bears 11 pyramidal knobs. The head-board and stern-board extend about four or 5 inches over the solid ends of the hull. The seams are caulked.

The three (rarely there may be be four or even five) straight blooms are 6 feet 6 inches long and there is a bamboo stringer halfway along their length. The float is a rounded log 16 feet 1 inch long and 7 inches in diameter at the middle; it runs up to a blunt point at each end. Each attachment consists of two pairs of divergent overcrossed sticks and a pair between them; all the links slanted upward and inward from the float, as in Santa Cruz. At the middle is a suspensory brace or lashing consisting of five or six braids of sennit, which is tied around the float (fig. 34, c). This is the typical arrangement but the outer pairs of connectives may not diverged from each other and the central pair maybe parallel and adpressed to the boom.

The paddles figure and (34,c) average 5 feet 9"inches in in length and the blade average 2'9" in width. The bailer (fig. 34,b) is of the Oceanic type and is 16 inches long; the free handle is 8 inches long.
Event Date 1937
Author: rachel hand

Context (Acquisition Details)
A. C. Haddon and James Hornell's Canoes of Oceania publication (1937) states: 'A Tikopian canoe has recently been given to the Cambridge Museum by Mr R. H. Garvey' (Volume II, p.55). This appears to be the canoe now known as TEMP.00013, which was never formally written into the Museum's accession register.
Event Date 1937
Author: rachel hand

Context (Acquisition Details)
Found at SHORTS by R. Hand 29/07/2014 who recollects seeing it there in 2000 during the DCMS Shorts Project. A search of the registers and annual report has not revealed the acquisition of this object.
Event Date 30/7/2014
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
[TEMP.00013.1-2:] Large dug out canoe and now detached outrigger. Decorated with white and red alternating triangles.
Event Date 30/7/2014
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Outrigger formed of a large wooden float with pointed ends, three horizontal booms, connected to the float by three pairs of connective sticks (one of the sticks now missing) and complex lashing of 3-ply plaited coconut fibre, and a stringer laying flat across the booms and tied with 3-ply plaited coconut fibre cord and twisted rope. Designed to be connected to an dugout canoe (TEMP.00013.1).
Event Date 27/6/2024
Author: Lucie Carreau

Conservation (Surface Clean)
CON.2024.5967 | Surface Clean
Event Date 28/6/2024
Author: Ayesha Fuentes