Boat Ornaments
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Aug 1968
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Province M. Henry
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Boat prow and stern tip ornaments "Moron no tatara". Each consists of a carved and painted Magamaog figure, identical on both sides, i.e. double faced. No legs are shown, the figure rising from a circular element carved with a star-like figure. Arms outstretched and end in scrolls instead of hands. A tripartite ornament rises from head, one rising straight and one each curving to left and right and ending in scrolls. Painted red, black and white. Collector says: "Bow and stern ornamentations for a 2-man boat for ceremonious occasions. The customary feathers are missing from this pair ... being intact only on newer specimens ... these probably are about 30 years ago ... are not the original pair from the boat (next item) but are from the same village. Boat is older and painted in clay pigment colors." See Kano and Segawa, 1956, p. 290".
label: Notes
content: Magamaog is a culture hero who taught the Yami/Tao the arts of boat-building and agriculture. - "A Look Back: Art of the Austronesians: The Legacy of Indo-Pacific Voyaging" Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA, https://fowler.ucla.edu/a-look-back-art-of-the-austronesians-the-legacy-of-indo-pacific-voyaging/ , retrieved 5 April 2013.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Nov 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Taiwan, China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yami (Tao)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 258290
label: USNM Number
content: E409901-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Boat Ornament