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Unidentified maker (Solomon Islands)

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Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Normand J. Brule

53.48.12904

Geography

Place Made: Solomon Islands, Melanesia, Oceania

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Oceania

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by N. J. Brule, White River Junction, Vermont, in the Solomon Island (during service in World War II), about 1943; given to present collection, 1953.

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