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Object Number
07-45-70/72755
Display Title
Canoe figure heads
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Carvings, curved openwork panels, anthropomorphic figures, 1 broken
Classification
- Carving
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Papua New Guinea
Additional Geographic Terms
Jendee; Roon Island; Geelvink Bay
Materials
Wood
Dimensions
Overall: 72.4 x 15.5 x 4.1 cm (28 1/2 x 6 1/8 x 1 5/8 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
72755
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| 07-45-70/72676 | Figure head for bow of canoe |
Carving
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Papua New Guinea
| |
| 07-45-70/72728 | Figure head for canoe |
Carving
|
Papua New Guinea
| |
| 33-56-20/2308 | Balsa boat with figures of parrot spirits traveling in a canoe on a river in the |
Carving
|
Darien
| |
| 36-105-70/470 | Wooden bow ornament from canoe |
Carving
|
Dutch New Guinea
| |
| 998-9-70/5754 | Ancestor figure |
Carving
|
Papua New Guinea
| |
| 973-24-70/5353 | Male figure perched on canoe, black-stained wood. |
Spoon
|
New Guinea
| |
| 00-8-70/55756.1 | Ornaments for ends of canoe |
Carving
|
Caroline Islands
Truk Island Hogolu Island | |
| 54-52-70/3638 | Carved tree trunk base; decoration of trophy heads and snakes; |
Carving
|
T'aitung Hsien
| |
| 54-52-70/3637 | Wooden staff decorated with heads, snakes, rifles and female figures |
Staff
|
Taiwan
| |
| 62-3-10/39709 | Ivory carving - 3 mermen (male) |
Carving
|
Igloolik
| |
| 39-17-70/1445 | Wooden house idol, carved human head, body wrapped in red cloth |
Carving
|
Papua New Guinea
Irian Jaya | |
| 91-6-70/50562 | Carving, figure head of a canoe |
Sculpture
|
Papua New Guinea
|