Fern Figure

Ambrym Island
Vanuatu (New Hebrides)

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collected mid-20th century

Fernwood

Overall: 79 in. (200.7 cm)

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

990.54.27605

Geography

Place Made: Vanuatu, Melanesia, Oceania

Period

20th century

Object Name

Figure

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Exhibition History

Faces/Voices: The Harry A. Franklin Family Collection of Oceanic Art at Dartmouth College, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-March 15, 1992.

Figural Sculpture: Selections from the Permanent Collection, SArt 16, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 3-October 23, 1994.

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

Publication History

Rebecca Bailey, What Is There to Teach About Art?, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Volume 88, Number 8, May 1996, South Burlington: The Lane Press Inc., 1996, pp.36-45, ill. p. 42

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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