Akeke (Bag)

Unidentified Puari maker
Mapaio Village
Puari Delta
Papua New Guinea

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2001

Fiber and dye

Overall: 40 9/16 × 7 3/16 in. (103 × 18.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Derrick R. Cartwright

2001.36.34021

Geography

Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania

Period

21st century

Object Name

Personal Gear: Bag

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Exhibition History

Changing Traditions in Pacific Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 38, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 7-November 10, 2002.

Collectanea: The Museum as Hunter and Gatherer, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 21, 2005-February 12, 2006.

Provenance

Collected by Robert Welsch, Papua New Guinea, summer 2001; given to an anonymous collector, 2001; given to present collection, 2001.

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