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Object Number
15-14-70/86192
Display Title
Engraved nut or seed
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Sculpture, carved nut, zoomorphic, incised pigmented decoration, fiber cord tail
Classification
- Sculpture
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Papua New Guinea
Materials
Nut, Vegetable fiber, Pigment
Dimensions
Overall: 9.7 x 4.4 x 4.4 cm (3 13/16 x 1 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
86192
Provenance
Dealer
Grace A. Nicholson
(1880-1914 - 1915)
Donor
Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow
(1915)
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