Braided Cord of Coconut Fiber

Unidentified Samoan maker

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1968

Coconut plant fiber

Overall: 94 1/2 × 1/4 in. (240 × 0.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

168.80.24414

Geography

Place Made: Samoa, Polynesia, Oceania

Place Made: Western Samoa, Polynesia, Oceania

Period

20th century

Object Name

Artifact

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Provenance

Made in Samoa, 1968; collected by E. Fred Schroeder, Jr., Rockey River, Ohio (Dartmouth Class of 1967), in Samoa 1968; sold to present collection, 1968.

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