Ancestor Board
Unidentified Kerewa maker
Goaribari Island
Papuan Gulf
Papua New Guinea
collected 1912
Wood, natural pigments (red, white, and black)
Overall: 33 7/8 × 6 11/16 × 3/8 in. (86 × 17 × 1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor William Patten, Class of 1908H
14.13.4284
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Place Made: Papuan Gulf, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Symbol
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Exhibition History
Art Styles of the Papuan Gulf, The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, New York, February 15-May 7, 1961, no. 41.
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.
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. 37.
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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