Slit Drum

Ambrym Island
Vanuatu (New Hebrides)

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not dated

Wood

Overall: 166 in. (421.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection

990.54.27601

Geography

Place Made: Vanuatu, Melanesia, Oceania

Period

20th century

Object Name

Musical Instrument

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Exhibition History

Monumental Figural Sculpture from the Melanesian Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 6-March 31, 1996.

Provenance

Acquired by Harry A. Franklin (1903-1983), Los Angeles, California, in the 1950s; bequeathed to the Harry A. Franklin Family Collection, Los Angeles, California, 1983; given to present collection, 1990.

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