Model of Outrigger Canoe

Unidentified maker (Kapingamarangi Island)

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about 1950

Breadfruit wood

Overall: 45 1/4 × 4 7/16 in. (115 × 11.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Ralph English Miller, Class of 1924

51.6.12632

Geography

Place Made: Kapingamarangi Island, Caroline Islands, Micronesia, Oceania

Period

20th century

Object Name

Model

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Provenance

Ralph English Miller (1899-1959), Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1951.

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