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Description: | Paddle (local name: Nale). Purchased from Christiani Oselmo, an Arawak elder in St. Cuthbert's, Mahaica River, Region 4, Guyana, on 1 June 2003. The paddles were used for canoes that carried out fishing and transportation activities on the Mahaica River. This short, old and unpainted paddle is female. It was made from the Yarola wood. The tree that produces the Yarola wood is not destroyed when making the paddle. One cuts a branch or only a part of the tree that one would need for the paddles and leaves the tree intact. A plain wooden canoe paddle with broad blade, made of greyish-brown coloured wood. The handle end is bifurcated.
caption: General view of object no. 2003.434. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | Arawak wood canoe paddles | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-119802 | Go to resource |
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