Star Map for Navigation
Unidentified maker (Pohnpei Island)
Wood, thread
Overall: 16 7/8 × 15 9/16 in. (42.8 × 39.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor Alfred Frank Whiting
178.11.25661
Geography
Place Made: Pohnpei Island, Caroline Islands, Micronesia, Oceania
Object Name
Written Communication
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Course History
FILM 48, SART 17, The Map, Mary Flanagan, Summer 2012
ANTH 12.13, Moving House in Prehistory, Benjamin Valentine, Spring 2015
Provenance
Collected by Alfred Frank Whiting (1912-1978); given to present collection, 1974.
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