Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day One - 17 Sep 2025
A Loyalty Islands model canoe
A Loyalty Islands model canoe
New Caledonia, Melanesia
the double hulls united by boards and fibre, with a pair of woven rattan and cloth edged sails, with a paper label inscribed KENNEDY COLLECTION 258. LOYALTY ISLANDS. MODEL OF DOUBLE CANOE. ETH:ALB:II 67.Nos 1/4 5.X.91.,
31.5cm long, 19cm wide.
Provenance
Kennedy Collection, UK, acquired in 1891.
William Ohly (1883 - 1955) Berkeley Galleries and Abbey Museum, New Barnet, London, UK, and thence by descent.
Condition Reports
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