Prow ornament
- Museum number:
- 11-39731
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110039731
- Accession number:
- Acc.2006
- Description:
- canoe prow ornament; straight back, single lobe, incised curvilinear designs, pierced; colored in fugitive ochre and white
- Donor:
- Bronislaw Malinowski and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua Region
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Melanesia; Trobriand Islands
- Culture or time period:
- Massim and New Guinea, Papua Island
- Collector:
- Bronislaw Malinowski
- Collection date:
- 1914-1920
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.4 Transportation
- Accession date:
- 1965
- Department:
- Oceania
- Loans:
- S1970-1971 #5: Dallas Museum of Art (August 20, 1970–December 18, 1970)
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