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Canoe Ornament

1867

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Canoe Ornament

1867

Physical Qualities Wood, pigments, H. 14 in. (35.6 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number 1955.251.127
Black and white pigments
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1955; Alan Wurtzburger; D'Chauvet Paris 1895?
"The Alan Wurtzburger Collection of Oceanic Art", January 7th-March 4th 1956, Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art News. December 1955. pg. 5.
Douglas F. Fraser & Paul S. Wingret, "The Wurtzburger Collection of Oceanic Art" , BMA 1956 pg. 13, 35. ills 127.
"Object of the Week". Sunday Sun. Brown Section.
Gray, Clara Marin. "Collecting Indigenous Art Creates Debate". The Johns Hopkins University Gazette. April 11th 1989. pg. 1, 9.

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