Fish or Bird Spear

Unidentified Fijian maker

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late 19th century

Wood and plant fiber

Overall: 101 9/16 in. (258 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly

22.3.1870

Geography

Place Made: Fiji, Melanesia, Oceania

Period

19th century

Object Name

Armament

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly (1851-1927), West Newton, Massachusetts; given to the present collection, 1922.

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