Displayed Figure
Middle Sepik River
Papua New Guinea
19th-20th century
Wood
Overall: 132 in. (335.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection
990.54.27245
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
19th century
Object Name
Building Component
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Exhibition History
Art of New Guinea; Sepik, Maprik, and Highlands, The Ethnic Art Galleries, 1967, no. 117.
Religious Symbols in the Art of New Guinea, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47 & 53, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 17-May 16, 1999.
The Primitive Arts of the Sepik River, New Guinea, The Lang Art Galleries, Scripps College, Claremont, California, October 18-December 17, 1960, no. 4415.
Publication History
Douglas Fraser, Primitive Art, Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962, p. 222, illus. pl. 137.
Museum and Laboratories of Ethnic Arts and Technology, UCLA and the Ethnic Arts Council, Art of New Guinea; Sepik, Maprik, and Highlands, Los Angeles: The Ethnic Art Galleries, 1967, listed, p. 42, no. 117
The Lang Art Galleries, Scripps College, The Primitive Arts of the Sepik River, New Guinea, Claremont, CA: The Lang Art Galleries, Scripps College, 1960, no. 4415.
Provenance
Acquired by Harry A. Franklin (1903-1983), Los Angeles, California, in the 1950s; to the Harry A. Franklin Family Collection, Los Angeles, California, 1983; given to present collection, 1990.
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