Canoe Bow Ornament
67-5-42
From: Solomon Islands | Santa Catalina
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 67-5-42 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Solomon Islands | Santa Catalina |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Shell | Pigment |
| Description | Double scroll motif. This can be used on bonito canoe, and is seen more on Ulawa than on Santa Ana or Santa Catalina. The double scroll is also used as stem piece on special small trading canoes (about the size of bonito canoes) that are built more like fishing canoes than along the plan of the very large trading canoes. Carver: Anoqa. |
| Length | 48 cm |
| Credit Line | William Kohler Expedition; William H. Davenport, 1967 |
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