Basalt Celt
Unidentified Samoan maker
Basalt
Overall: 3 1/8 × 1 3/8 × 9/16 in. (8 × 3.5 × 1.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Acquired by exchange from the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i
41.10.7467
Geography
Place Made: Samoa, Polynesia, Oceania
Place Made: Ta‘ū, Samoa, Polynesia, Oceania
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Woodworking
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by D. Wesley Garber, Siufaga, Tau, Manua, 1922; Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; received in Exchange #22 to the present collection, 1941.
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