Engraved Bamboo
2003-32-2
From: New Caledonia
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2003-32-2 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Caledonia |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Bamboo |
| Description | Several large splits, 16cm x 1 cm piece missiog from one end. 1.5 cm hole cut in center, surrounding area wrapped in a different material. 1 cm hole cut 24 cm from one end. Geometric designs: checkerboard, triangles, diamonds. Images: men in a canoe, women (?) holding up something. Remaining scene is obscured by wrapping. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900. |
| Length | 113.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 2.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1994.X.11425 - Other Number |
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