Mataa (Obsidian Spear Point)

Unidentified Rapa Nui maker

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Obsidian

Overall: 2 3/4 × 4 1/8 in. (7 × 10.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Acquired by exchange from the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i

41.10.7470

Geography

Place Made: Easter Island, Polynesia, Oceania

Object Name

Armament

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by James Lyle Young (1849-1929), between 1882-1929; given to the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1920s; received by the present collecton in Exchange #22, 1941.

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