Catalogue card for Z 20407: "Wooden paddle-blade, with carved openwork 'lizard' motifs and geometric incised decoration. Signs of something having been broken off at the handle end.'
Wooden paddle-blade carved from a single piece of wood. The paddle blade has open-work stylised lizards and ziz-zags, and carved geometric decoration. Evidence of something having been snapped off at the handle end.
Wooden paddle-blade carved from a single piece of wood. The paddle blade has open-work stylised lizards and ziz-zags, and carved geometric decoration. Evidence of something having been snapped off at the handle end.
Catalogue card reads, in black ink: "Z.20407 | W. AFRICA | Nigeria / ?Gulf of Benin / Wooden paddle-blade with carved openwork 'lizard ' motifs and geometric incised decoration. Signs of something having been broken off at the handle end. / No label, but resembles paddle-blades 1887.E.64 (4) A-B, known to come from Gulf of Benin." Red circular sticker in bottom right corner of card.