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Wooden bowl
Object Number 99-12-70/53496
Display Title Wooden bowl
Descriptions
Object Description Wooden bowl
Inventory Description Bowl, carved wood quadraped, projecting head, paua shell eyes, curvilinear desig
Classification
  • Bowl
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Culture
  • Maori
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / New Zealand
Materials Wood, Paua
Dimensions Overall: 21.5 x 61 x 28.5 cm (8 7/16 x 24 x 11 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53496
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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