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Model Canoe and Paddles
The collection record classifies this work as furniture and woodwork. It is dated 1900s. Recorded culture or place: Africa, East Africa, probably Uganda, unknown maker.
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- Museum title
- Model Canoe and Paddles
- Date
- 1900s
- Culture / origin
- Africa, East Africa, probably Uganda, unknown maker
- Materials and technique
- wood
- Dimensions
- Overall: 12.8 cm (5 1/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1929.350
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Made of plain wood, this is a model of a canoe with a prow, seats, and five paddles. Composed of multiple panels sewn together with fibers, it was described in historical museum documents as a "war canoe." Similar examples from around the same period are found in American and European museums, where they had been collected in eastern, central, and western Africa as anthropological artifacts rather than as artworks. While the archives have little information about this object, it appears similar to Ugandan sewn plank canoes and to a model example collected in Uganda between 1890 and 1910 now at the British Museum.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of the African Art Sponsors of Karamu House · CC0
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