Medicine Doll
Unidentified Guna (Kuna) maker
1954
Wood and cloth
Overall: 13 3/4 × 3 1/8 in. (35 × 8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Lt. Robert A. Ash USNR, Class of 1952
56.19.13627
Geography
Place Made: Panama, Central America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Artifact: Medicine
Research Area
Americas
Not on view
Provenance
From Aligande Island, Panama; sold to Robert A. Ash, Key Biscayne, Florida; given to present collection, 1956.
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