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Unidentified Kerewa maker
Goaribari Island
Papuan Gulf
Papua New Guinea

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Cane shaft, hardwood foreshaft, claw point, white and black pigment

Overall: 54 7/16 in. (138.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Richard Jaquith Fowle, Class of 1934

172.1.25276B

Geography

Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania

Place Made: Papuan Gulf, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania

Object Name

Armament

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Provenance

Richard Jaquith Fowle (1912-1972, Class of 1934), Thetford, Vermont; given to present collection, 1972.

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