Armlet
Unidentified Melpa maker
Mount Hagen
Western Highlands area
Papua New Guinea
collected 1945
Black orchid fiber, nassa shell, and cane
Overall: 3 15/16 × 4 1/8 in. (10 × 10.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ross Woodbridge, Class of 1936
179.21.25915
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Adornment
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Exhibition History
Changing Traditions in Pacific Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 38, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 7-November 10, 2002.
Provenance
Possibly collected by Major Thomas Upson and Captain Andrew M. Sinclair; given to [Thomas] Ross Woodbridge (1913-unknown), Class of 1936, during the time he was the Field Director of the American Red Cross in Papua New Guinea, 1944-1945; given to present collection, 1979.
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