Ancestral Board (gope)
Meagoma / Karati village
Wapo Creek
Papuan Gulf
Papua New Guinea
collected in 1966
Wood
Overall: 55 7/8 in. (142 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn A. J. Hall and John A. Friede
183.7.26393
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Symbol
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Course History
Anthropology 50.34, Native American and Indigenous Studies 30.28, Peoples of Oceania, Brinker Ferguson, Spring 2024
Publication History
Robert L. Welsch, Virginia-Lee Webb, and Sebastian Haraha, Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2006, ill. p. 92.
Provenance
Collected by Thomas Schultz, 1966; Evelyn A. J. Hall and her son John A. Friede, New York, 1980; given to present collection, 1983.
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