Outrigger Canoe Paddle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Feb 1964
label: Collection Date
content: 1944
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Charles R. Castlen
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Charles R. Castlen
notes: label: Notes
content: From catalog card: "Single piece of wood, lanceolote-shaped blade 117.5 cm. L., cylindrical handle, slightly enlarged at back end, and upper shaft decorated in a wide burned spiral. Put back together after being cut in [...] parts for shipping. 8/1964 permanently attached in Anth. Lab."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Port Moresby (not certain), New Guinea / Central Province (not certain), Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Motu (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 252811
label: USNM Number
content: E402154-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe Paddle
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 261 cm
label: Width
content: 12 cm