Pipe
Papua New Guinea
collected 1885
Bamboo
Overall: 28 1/8 × 2 9/16 in. (71.5 × 6.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Acquired by exchange from the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury, Vermont
53.65.13195
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Pipe
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Exhibition History
Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-September 17, 2006; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, October 24-September 2, 2007.
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. 83.
Provenance
Collected by Adolph Peter Goodwin (1842-1914), 1885; Henry Clay Ide (1844-1921, Class of 1866; given to his daughter Anne Louisa Ide Cockran (1876-1945); ); given to The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury, Vermont; received by present collection in an exchange, 1953.
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