Top view of carved wooden storage box for feathers

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Object Number 2004.24.14512

Display Title Top view of carved wooden storage box for feathers

Descriptions

Object Description Top view of carved wooden storage box for feathers. New Zealand. Photograph by F.P. Orchard. 5 x 7 19-42-70/D1279

Keywords

Studio
Ethnographic
Household

Subject

Box
Storage
Feather
Carved
Wood

Department Photographic

Artist Frederick P. Orchard

Culture

Polynesian

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Oceania / New Zealand

Materials Negative, nitrate

Dimensions Overall: 12.7 x 17.78 cm (5 x 7 in.)

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