Object Number | 2003-32-22 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | New Caledonia |
Section | Oceanian |
Materials | Wood | Pigment | Metal |
Description | One of two carved posts flanking the doorway of a clan chief's house. Human face at the top, with vertical rows of four diamonds surrounded by parallel incised lines below. Vertical cracks left of center, oval hole between the two top diamonds in center row. Nail. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900. |
Height | 127.5 cm |
Width | 43 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1994.X.11454 - Other Number | L-552-13 - Other Number |
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