Taiaha (Long Fighting Staff)
Unidentified Māori maker
collected 1883
Wood and Mother of Pearl
Overall: 61 × 1 15/16 × 1 in. (155 × 5 × 2.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Acquired by exchange from the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium
172.12.25338
Geography
Place Made: New Zealand, Polynesia, Oceania
Period
19th century
Object Name
Armament
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Adolph Peter Goodwin (1842-1914, naturalist and photographer); given to the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium, St. Johnsbury, Vermont; acquired by present collection in Exchange 160, 1972.
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