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Object Number
17-24-70/D862
Display Title
Head rest
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Headrest, carved wood, figurative and geometric cutout designs, white acretions
Classification
- Headrest
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Papua New Guinea
Materials
Wood
Dimensions
Overall: 184 × 221 × 58 mm (7 1/4 × 8 11/16 × 2 5/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
D-862; 45.12 49 / Cambridge; 45.1249; 89/45
Credit Line
Gift of Thomas Barbour, 1917
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