Paddle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
label: Expedition
content: Albatross Expedition / U.S. Fish Commission
label: Vessel
content: U.S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross"
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM LOGBOOK: PADDLE, SOLOMON IS. PAINTED "FISH TAIL."
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 part of a region which was 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. However, there is some indication according to Haddon and Hornell that "fish" representations were common in the southeast and central islands, which are part of the modern Solomon Islands region. Ledger: 'Paddle, Solomon Is. Painted "fish tail."'
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET7950-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Paddle