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Object Number 2004.24.31851
Display Title Carving of fishlike animal
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Effigy
Subject
  • Fish
Department Photographic
Date 1988
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Polynesian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Chile / Rapa Nui
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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