Lei Niho Palaoa (Human Hair and Whale Bone Ivory Neck Ornament)
Unidentifed Kānaka Maoli maker
19th century
Hair, whale bone ivory, fiber cord
Overall: 10 5/8 in. (27 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
13.12.728
Geography
Place Made: Hawaii, Polynesia, Oceania
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Adornment
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.
Peoples of Oceania: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-30, 1995.
The Art of War: Melanesian and Polynesian Expressions of Beauty and Violence, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 27-May 13, 2001.
Provenance
Source unknown; donated to Dartmouth College, in the late 18th or 19th century; catalogued, 1913.
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