Ancestral Board (hohao)

Unidentified Elema maker
Papuan Gulf
Papua New Guinea

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20th century

Wood, natural pigments (red and white)

Overall: 53 in. (134.6 cm)

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

990.54.27730

Geography

Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania

Period

20th century

Object Name

Personal Symbol

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Exhibition History

Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-September 17, 2006.

Religious Symbols in the Art of New Guinea, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47 & 53, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 17-May 16, 1999.

Publication History

Robert L. Welsch, Virginia-Lee Webb, and Sebastian Haraha, Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2006, ill. p. 18.

Provenance

Malvina Hoffman; Sotheby's, New York, October 14-15, 1977, lot 681; Harry A. Franklin, Los Angeles, California 1950; Harry A. Franklin Family, Los Angeles, California, 1983; given to present collection, 1990.

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