Janus-Faced Roof Finial of a Men's House
Big Nambas Village
Northwestern Malekula Island
Vanuatu (New Hebrides)
mid-20th century
Fernwood
Overall: 65 1/2 × 40 in. (166.4 × 101.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection
990.54.27916
Geography
Place Made: Vanuatu, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Building Component
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 57, Origins of Inequality, Alan Covey, Winter 2013
Exhibition History
Arts of Oceania, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, October 10-November 29, 1970, Melanesia: New Guinea, no. 85.
Monumental Figural Sculpture from the Melanesian Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 6-March 31, 1996.
Peoples of Oceania: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-30, 1995.
Publication History
Arts of Oceania, Dallas: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1970, Melanesia: New Guinea, no. 85.
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; lent to present collection, 1990; given to present collection, 1997.
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