Armlet
Unidentified Māori maker
1940s
Boar tusk
Overall: 4 3/16 in. (10.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift through the Goffstown Historical Society and Montshire Museum of Science
178.6.25654
Geography
Place Made: New Zealand, Polynesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Adornment
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Constant Ferdinand Pellens (1895-1979) in New Zealand during World War II; given to the Goffstown Historical Society, New Hamsphire; to the Montshire Museum of Science; to the present collection, 1978.
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