Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge collection record for Rapa, Cambridge — E 1894.95

Catalogue number: E 1894.95

Description: Rapa. Dance-paddle carved of toromiro wood, a flattened 'head' form at one end with stylized facial features merging into a cylindrical hand-grip section broadening out into a flattened 'torso' form ending with a stylized phallus point. A section of wood missing from inside the edge of the 'torso' form.

Description: Place: Oceania; Polynesia; Rapa Nui [Easter Island]

Material: Wood

Classification: Rapa

Description: Measurements: 23mm x 873mm x 185mm

Description: Source: Froude, James Anthony [monetary donor]

Description: Reference Numbers: E 1894.95; MAA: AR 1894.414; Z 6125; Z 6435 [painted on object]; 16 [written in pencil]

Description: Catalogue event: Context (Acquisition Details) Purchased with money provided to the Museum Accession Fund by James Anthony Froude, Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, and paternal uncle of Baroness Eliza von Hügel, wife of the curator Baron Anotole von Hügel Event Date 1894 Author: rachel hand