IDNO

P.43927.HNL

Description

“Model of an outrigger canoe from Nonuti (Peabody Museum, Salem), hull of typical Gilbertese form, outrigger attachment of Marshall Islands pattern; model probably once had straight stachion inserted between end of each straight boom and float; hull, being made of strips of palm leaf, fails to show peculiar curved run of strakes and way in which each is made up of ‘patches’.”

Detail on print retouched in. [JD 1/4/2008]

Place

Oceania Micronesia; N America; Kiribati; United States of America; Nonuti Island; Massachusetts; Salem; Peabody Museum [Gilbert Islands]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Peabody Museum

Collector / Expedition

Hornell, James

Date

circa 1936

Collection Name

Hornell Collection

Source

Hornell, Charlotte (Mrs)

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The print was found in an University College London envelope now numbered C144/6/ which was in a cardboard box numbered C144/ by the transcriber.

P.43925.HNL to P.43939.HNL were found in an envelope now marked C144/6/.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 4/4/2008]