Paddle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Apr 1900
label: Collection Date
content: 1899 to 1900
name: label: Collector
content: Charles H. Townsend
label: Collector
content: H. F. Moore
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Commission of Fish & Fisheries
label: Expedition
content: Albatross Expedition / U.S. Fish Commission
label: Vessel
content: U.S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross"
notes: label: Notes
content: There is no way of knowing which part of the "Solomon Islands" this comes from without extensive comparative research. In volume II of Canoes of Oceania (1937) Haddon and Hornell describe the paddles of Bougainville Island, Buka Island and the Solomon Islands on page 84 (back then, all were known as the Solomon Islands). Elongate paddles can be found in the southeast Solomons as well as in Bougainville/Buka Island which are now part of PNG. This paddle does not have a stylised depiction of an anthropomorph, which would tend to indicate a Bougainville/Buka origin specifically.
label: Notes
content: From catalog card: "Long narrow pointed paddle with crutch. Painted in black."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Mar 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Bougainville (not certain) / Buka Island (not certain), Solomon Islands (not certain) / Papua New Guinea (not certain), Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 036365
label: USNM Number
content: E205033-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Paddle
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 160 cm