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Wooden canoe

    Information about the exhibit

    • Ethnic affiliation: indigenous people of the Solomon Islands
    • Place of creation: Solomon Islands
    • Geographical location of the place of creation: Solomon Islands
    • Material: wood
    • Technique: handmade production, pecking
    • Size: length – 40 cm, width – 5 cm
    • Year of creation: 2011
    • Collector: private individual Pale Sofiya Evgenyevna (1976-2024)
    • Period of use: 2010s
    • Use: household interior item
    • Condition: good
    • Analogues in the Kunstkamera collection funds: MAE No. 1634-2
    • Keywords: Solomon Islands, peoples of Australia and Oceania, Melanesians, indigenous people of the Solomon Islands

    Historical and cultural commentary

    A canoe is one of the most important elements of the culture of the peoples of Oceania, providing for survival. One can learn how important canoes are to Oceanians from the works of A. Lebedeva — a research associate of the Kunstkamera (St. Petersburg).

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