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Unidentified Kerewa maker
Goaribari Island
Papuan Gulf
Papua New Guinea
collected 1912
Cane shaft, hardwood foreshaft, red pigment, Cassowary claw point
Overall: 63 1/16 in. (160.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor William Patten, Class of 1908H
14.13.4304
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Place Made: Papuan Gulf, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Armament
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Exhibition History
The Art of War: Melanesian and Polynesian Expressions of Beauty and Violence, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 27-May 13, 2001.
Provenance
Collected by Professor William Patten on Goaribari Island, Gulf of Papua, March 17-23, 1912 (see diary in Archives); given to present collection, 1914.
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