Standing Male Figure
Unidentified Murik maker
Lower Sepik River
Papua New Guinea
collected in th 1950s
Wood
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection
990.54.27770.1
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
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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