African, Oceanic & Art of the Americas - 28th April 2022
Lot 1001
A Guyana paddle
Estimate £600 - £800 | Hammer £2400
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Description
A Guyana paddle
South America
the shaped edge tapered blade with black linear decoration to both sides, with a cylindrical shaft and tapered handle with a fish-tail terminal, the shaft inscribed in yellow ink BRITISH GUIANA. WBSTR. 1897. P., and in white ink 432 twice, 19th century,
141.2cm long.
Provenance
William Downing Webster (1868 - 1913)
Lieut. Gen. Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827 - 1900) acquired from the above in 1897.