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Era River people, carved and painted board (gope), early 20th century, wood, natural pigments (white, black, and red), height: 73 cm, width: 28 cm, depth: 2 cm. Hood Museum of Art, Harry A. Franklin Family Collection; 990.54.27340.
The Hood Museum of Art has regularly produced major exhibitions accompanied by scholarly publications for travel to other institutions in North America. These have included Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century France (1997-98), José Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934 (2002-3), Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past (2003-4), and Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art (2005).
The following Hood Museum of Art exhibition traveled most recently:
Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
October 24, 2006 - September 2, 2007
