Comb
Manus Village
Papuan Gulf
Papua New Guinea
mid-20th century
Wood
Overall: 9 3/16 in. (23.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection
990.54.27498
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Adornment
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Exhibition History
The Art of War: Melanesian and Polynesian Expressions of Beauty and Violence, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 27-May 13, 2001.
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of the Buffalo Museum of Science, 1940; Harry A. Franklin, Los Angeles, California 1950; Harry A. Franklin Family, Los Angeles, California, 1983; given to present collection, 1990.
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