Canoe splashboard
- Museum number:
- 11-39240
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110039240
- Accession number:
- Acc.2006
- Object count:
- 1
- Count note:
- 1
- Description:
- Wooden canoe prow splash board, intricately carved on one face, plain on other; male human figure in top center; Splash board placed transversely across the prow behind the prow ornament. A finely decorated sea-going canoe enhanced the prestige of the members of a trading expedition and of their village.
- Donor:
- Bronislaw Malinowski and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua Region
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Melanesia; Trobriand Islands
- Culture or time period:
- Massim
- Collector:
- Bronislaw Malinowski
- Collection date:
- 1914-1920
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.4 Transportation
- Accession date:
- 1965
- Department:
- Oceania
- Images: