Model
Canoe Outrigger
P1757B
From: Caroline Islands | Truk Islands
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | P1757B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Caroline Islands | Truk Islands |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Plant Fiber | Pigment |
| Description | Outrigger float for model canoe P1757A. Slender, with upturned ends. Raised areas in center, both sides, with holes for lashing to outrigger booms. Remnant of fiber lashing in one of these holes. Outside decorated at center with rows of carved slashes and triangles. Top carved with pairs of shallow depressions running to bow and stern, painted red. Rest painted black. |
| Length | 90 cm |
| Width | 7.5 cm |
| Depth | 6 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Dr. William H. Furness 3rd., 1904 |
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