Ancestral Board (gope, kwoi or kohe)
Unidentified Namau maker
possibly Purari Delta
Havasea village
Urama Island
Papuan Gulf
Papua New Guinea
20th century
Wood, natural pigments (red, white, and black)
Overall: 45 1/4 × 13 1/16 × 15/16 in. (114.9 × 33.2 × 2.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection
2019.97.34
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Symbol
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 50.34, Peoples of Oceania, Brinker Ferguson, Fall 2021
ANTH 50.34, Peoples of Oceania, Brinker Ferguson, Fall 2021
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; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, October 24-September 2, 2007.
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. 34.
Provenance
Collected by Roy James Hedlund, 1961; Harry A. Franklin, Los Angeles, California, date unknown; Harry A. Franklin Family, Los Angeles, California, 1983; lent to present collection, 1990; given to present collection, 2019.
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