Ancestral Board (hohao)
Unidentified Elema maker
Papuan Gulf
Papua New Guinea
20th century
Wood, natural pigments (red and white)
Overall: 53 in. (134.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection
990.54.27730
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Symbol
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Exhibition History
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.
Religious Symbols in the Art of New Guinea, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47 & 53, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 17-May 16, 1999.
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. 18.
Provenance
Malvina Hoffman; Sotheby's, New York, October 14-15, 1977, lot 681; Harry A. Franklin, Los Angeles, California 1950; Harry A. Franklin Family, Los Angeles, California, 1983; given to present collection, 1990.
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