Paddle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 May 2013
label: Collection Date
content: 1972
name: label: Collector
content: Richard Feinberg
label: Donor Name
content: Richard Feinberg
notes: label: Notes
content: Very heavy carved wooden paddle, with pointed blade. Ridge down the center of both sides of handle and blade. Text painted on both sides of blade: "Vakaimoana"
label: Notes
content: Poe Aro (paddling paddle) made from te petau (Calophyllum wood). Poe is word for paddle; aro also means paddle; Written on the canoe is the word vakaimoana which was the name of the canoe it was connected to. Typically people have canoes in their house and you use one. Feinberg was not sure why this paddle would be connected to that canoe. Feinberg doesn't think this is his handwritting. This one appears used. Only men make and use. (See Plate 48 in 2. Feinberg, R. 1988 Polynesian Seafaring and Navigation). (Per curator Joshua Bell; notes from speaking to Feinberg, Aug 16, 2012.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Anuta Island, Solomon Islands, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Anutan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2059846
label: USNM Number
content: E433242-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe Paddle
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 174 cm
label: Width
content: 19 cm
label: Diameter
content: 5 cm