Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day One - 17th September 2025

Lot 309

A Nicobar Islands model canoe

Estimate £500 - £800

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Description

A Nicobar Islands model canoe
Bay of Bengal
the carved out and burnt hull with a leaf fibre bound top frame, inscribed Model Canoe with outrigger Nicobar Islds. d.d. E. H. Man., Nic.2, with sticker ABBEY MUSEUM NEW BARNET and BERKELEY GALLERIES, 20 DAVIES STREET, W.1., inscribed 53 E.d., and a sticker inscribed 2 Nic,
203cm long.

Provenance
William Ohly (1883 - 1955) Berkeley Galleries and Abbey Museum, New Barnet, London, UK, and thence by descent.