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idno object id | 1887.64.4 B |
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Physical description/0 description | Catalogue card for 1887.64.4 A-B 'Two paddles'. [Added later in different handwriting:] 'Carved and leaf shaped.' |
Physical description/1 description | Each has carved lizard pattern. [T.Cadbury] |
Physical description/2 description | Wooden paddle, pointed at one end with a handle on the other. Decorated with stylised lizard and rectangular open-work, and carved with geometric patters. Part of a pair, with 1887.64.4 A. |
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d_Description Name description | Wooden paddle, pointed at one end with a handle on the other. Decorated with stylised lizard and rectangular open-work, and carved with geometric patters. Part of a pair, with 1887.64.4 A. |
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length dimensions | 720 mm |
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d_Place production place | Africa; West Africa; Nigeria; Gulf of Benin |
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source prior source | von Hügel, Anatole Andreas Aloys (Baron) [donor]; Museum Accession Fund [monetary donor] |
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culture group ethnic attribution | ?Itsekiri [?IJekri] |
source date accession date | 1887 |
Amendments - updates/0 notes | Purchased with a donation to the Museum Accession Fund from Curator Baron Anatole von Hugel, as noted in the Annual Report for items under 1887.64 'In those cases where the objects have not been presented directly, but have been purchase with money subscribed to the Museum Accession Fund, an asterisk is prefixed to the name of the donor'. |
Amendments - updates/1 notes | Probably a wooden ceremonial or dance paddle from the Itsekiri/Jekiri from the Niger delta. |
Amendments - updates/2 notes | This item was previously noted as Edo in the Cultural Group field but this is not recorded on the catalogue card or accession register, and was possibly added because the Place field refers to 'Benin'. As the object has been identified as an Itsekiri/IJekri dance paddle, the Cultural Group has been updated to reflect this. |
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Reference Numbers bibliography | 1887.64.4 B MAA: AR 1887.64.4 |
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Related Documents/0 bibliography | Catalogue card reads in black ink: "E. / AFRICA. | Gulf of Benin / 1887.64, (4).a+b / 2 Paddles. / b. *Baron A. von Hugel. / R. 1887.64, (4)." In second hand, blue biro: "WEST AFRICA | NIGERIA | carved and leaf shaped." Red circular sticker in bottom right corner. |
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