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Vanuatu (New Hebrides)

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20th century

Fernwood

Overall: 74 in. (188 cm)

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

990.54.28173

Geography

Place Made: Vanuatu, Melanesia, Oceania

Period

20th century

Object Name

Building Component

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.

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

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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