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Object Number 2004.24.24983
Display Title Wooden baton and dance ornament
Descriptions
Object Description Wooden baton and dance ornament - carved, black with white-filled incisions
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Studio
Subject
  • Wood
  • Ornament
Department Photographic
Date 1967
Artist Arsen E. Charles
Culture
  • Siwai
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Solomon islands / <State> / Bougainville Island
Dimensions Overall: 8.89 x 11.43 cm (3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)

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