Doorboard
Unidentified Mountain Ok or Min maker, Telefomin Central Highlands, Sepik Headwater Region, Upper Sepik River, Papua New Guineaprobably 1930s or 1940s
Wood and pigment
Overall: 115 in. (292.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection
990.54.27994
Geography/Culture
Oceania, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea
Period
20th century
Object Name
Furnishings: Household Accessory
Classification
Oceania
Not on view
Exhibition History
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.
Provenance
Professor Barry Craig, 1960‘s-1970‘s; Harry A. Franklin, Los Angeles, California, 1965; Harry A. Franklin Family, Los Angeles, California, 1983; lent to present collection, 1990; given to present collection, 2003.
Old Number
O0936
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