Hook Figure (Garra)
Unidentified Bahinemo maker
East Sepik Province
Papua New Guinea
late 19th-early 20th century
Wood
Overall: 42 15/16 × 6 5/8 × 4 5/16 in. (109 × 16.8 × 11 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mary Katherine Burton Jones
2004.63.35577
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
19th century
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Provenance
Collection of Maud Morgan (1903-1999), Cambridge, Massachusetts; Mary Katherine Burton Jones, Cambridge, Massachusetts, date unknown; given to present collection, 2004.
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