Drum

Unidentified Kerewa maker
Goaribari Island
Papuan Gulf
Papua New Guinea

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collected 1912

Wood, lizard skin, beeswax, sago fiber string, resin, natural pigments

Overall: 21 1/4 in. (54 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor William Patten, Class of 1908H

14.13.4282

Geography

Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania

Place Made: Papuan Gulf, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania

Period

20th century

Object Name

Musical Instrument

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Exhibition History

Ancestors, Spirits, and Families: Expressing Relationships in Melanesian Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 11-June 30, 1996.

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.

Critical Faculties: Teaching with the Hood's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 15-March 13, 2005.

Recontextualizing 'Primitive' Art: Melanesian and African Works, An Exhibition in Process, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 72, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 25, 1997.

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. 7.

Provenance

Collected by Professor William Patten on Goaribari Island, Gulf of Papua, March 17-23, 1912 (see diary in Archives); given to present collection, 1914.

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