Mataa (Obsidian Spear Point)
Unidentified Rapa Nui maker
Obsidian
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Acquired by exchange from the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i
41.10.7471
Geography
Place Made: Easter Island, Polynesia, Oceania
Object Name
Armament
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by James Lyle Young (1849-1929), between 1882-1929; given to the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1920s; received by the present collecton in Exchange #22, 1941.
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