Canoe Paddle

29-50-620

From: New Guinea | Kanduonum

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 29-50-620
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Kanduonum
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Feather | Peel
Description

Wooden. With fish-tail blade. Upper portion of shaft decorated with cassowary feathers topped with a band of white feathers (of domestic fowl?) Man's.

Length 370.4 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924
Other Number 153 - Other Number

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