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Wooden image of hornbill
Object Number 04-19-70/63130
Display Title Wooden image of hornbill
Descriptions
Inventory Description Sculpture, carved bird, long beak, spiral crest, arching tail perforated at cent
Classification
  • Sculpture
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Kantu Dyak
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Malaysia / Borneo
Materials Wood, Glass, Animal hair, Pigment, Resin
Dimensions Overall: 56.8 x 100.5 x 19.5 cm (22 3/8 x 39 9/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 63130 / 45/28
Credit Line Gift of the Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1904.
Provenance
Collector Dr. William H. Furness, III (1897)
Donor Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania (1897 - 1904)

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