Wakahuia (Feather Box) decorated with two protruding Manaia (bird-headed mythological figure)
Unidentified Māori maker
collected 19th century
Wood and paua shell
Overall: 20 1/4 × 2 15/16 × 4 1/4 in. (51.5 × 7.5 × 10.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Acquired by exchange from the Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
54.68.13228
Geography
Place Made: New Zealand, Polynesia, Oceania
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Box
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Exhibition History
Changing Traditions in Pacific Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 38, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 7-November 10, 2002.
Peoples of Oceania: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-30, 1995.
Polynesian Tapa: Decorated Barkcloth from Tonga and Samoa, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Robert Welsch, Anthropology 38, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 23-November 28, 2004.
The Art of War: Melanesian and Polynesian Expressions of Beauty and Violence, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 27-May 13, 2001.
Provenance
Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; acquired by the present collection in Exchange no. 92, 1954.
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