IDNO

D.52611.CMC

Description

Drawing? / rubbing? in pencil of the “End of Louisiade Archip., paddle with long leaf-shaped blade. H Balfour Collections”
Possibly either Z 9074; 1904.357:
“Paddle with bird and crocodile carving on handle.” Source Unknown.
or
Pitt Rivers Museum 1919.6.7
“Accession Book Entry - 1919. H. Martin [sic] Gibbs, Esq. Barrow Court, Flax Bourton, Somerset. - Long, slender wooden paddle with carved ‘crocodile-and-bird’ design at end of handle.? Louisiade Archip.
Related Documents File - Extracts from letter to Balfour from Henry Martin Gibbs, dated 3 February 1919: "...I have put into the box another paddle with a long pointed blade and at the other end a little bit of carving [Drawing] but I am not sure where it came from, it probably came from Australia, or it may be a Maori one, ...". RDF also contains notes about ?other objects Gibbs has collected. [CF 13/11/2001]
The paddles are mentioned briefly in a letter from Gibbs to Balfour dated 25 January 1919. The letter is in the RDF for 1919.6.1 [JP 7/7/2004]” [http://databases.prm.ox.ac.uk, JD 19/8/2010]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Europe British Isles; Papua New Guinea; United Kingdom; Massim; Louisiades; Slade Island; England; ?Cambridge; ?Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology; ?Oxford; ?Pitt Rivers Museum [British New Guinea]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Balfour, Henry [Object Collection]

Date

Collection Name

?Comparative Museum Collections?Museum Objects and Galleries

Source

Format

Drawing

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.52601 to P.52613 and D.52611 were found in the envelope now numbered C253/. This was kept in wooden drawer V.
The mounted prints may have been exhibited.