Canoe Prow Ornament
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jun 1914
label: Collection Date
content: 1914
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
notes: label: Notes
content: Listed on page 103 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the New Guinea Tribes".
label: Notes
content: Catalog card contains some hard-to-read locality information in ink next to printed text. The ink text seems to read: 'Wakde' and the printed text specifies 'N. New Guinea.'
label: Notes
content: From card: "Carved and painted wood; for canoe prow."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Wakde Islands, Irian Jaya (Western New Guinea/Papua), Indonesia, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Papuan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 056963
label: USNM Number
content: E283879-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canoe Ornament