Greenstone Ax (Beku)
Unidentified Massim area maker
Massim area
Papua New Guinea
collected 19th century
Jadeite
Overall: 10 5/8 × 4 1/8 × 1 9/16 in. (27 × 10.5 × 4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
13.2.657
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
19th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Exhibition History
Ancestors, Spirits, and Families: Expressing Relationships in Melanesian Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 11-June 30, 1996.
Changing Traditions in Pacific Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 38, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 7-November 10, 2002.
Peoples of Oceania: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-30, 1995.
Provenance
Source unknown; donated to Dartmouth College, in the late 18th or 19th century; catalogued, 1913.
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