Детали

IPSMG:R.1938.1.120

Ipswich Collections

Ceremonial paddle with flat and wide leaf-shaped blade made of wood, with shark tooth pattern carving over whole surface and a square butt decorated with small anthropomorphic heads. The shaft is square in section, and circular sun motifs carved along the shaft and on the face of the blade and three of these sun motifs on the back of the blade. Potentially a gift of Admiral Page.

Polynesia, French Polynesia, Austral Islands

19th Century, early