Child's (model) canoe - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 76387 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 999.99 FAMILY UNKNOWN | Entry Book Number | 27.2001 | |
| Artefact Name | Child's (model) canoe | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Nigeria | TDWG Region | Nigeria | ||
| Parts Held | Child's (model) canoe | Geography Description | Nigeria, Africa, West Tropical Africa, Lagos | ||
| Uses | Child's (model) canoeUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles etc, outsize | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Millen, K | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/06/2001 | Donor Notes | Given to Ken Millen by his uncle, Henry Millen. A large canoe which floated on the Palm House lake for many years around the 1950s was from the same source. See notesx0Dx0AKen Millen, 31, Barum Court, Litchdon Street, Barnstaple, Devon, EX 32 8QL | ||
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| Notes: | A Nigerian canoe (crafted 1890-1898)x0Dx0AThis child size canoe hacked out of a small tree trunk and decorated with tribal insignia, was specially made for the younger brother of Henry Millen, who was curator of the Botanic Station (Gardens) at Lagos. At thi, s time he also had made a full size canoe capable of holding 12 men in swin seats from an extremely large tree trunk. He despatched this to Kew Gardens, where it was moored on the pond directly in front of the Palm House. After many years, it finally di, sintegrated and was removed. (1950s?)x0Dx0AHenry Millen left Lagos in 1898 to become curator of the Botanic Station in Tobago where he served until his death on 15 November, 1907. His death was announced in the Journal of the Kew Guild 1908.x0Dx0AThis Millen fam, ily heirloom is now being presented to Kew Gardens Collections in memory of Henry Millen and his brother (my father) Arthur Charles Millen for safe keeping and for display.x0Dx0A | ||||