Canoe Prow Ornament (Nguzu Nguzu)
1800-1899
Scroll
Canoe Prow Ornament (Nguzu Nguzu)
1800-1899
Physical Qualities
Wood, mother-of-pearl, pigment, H. 5 in. (12.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number
1955.251.124
Black pigment
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1955; Alan Wurtzburger
Douglas F. Fraser & Paul S. Wingret, "The Wurtzburger Collection of Oceanic Art" , BMA 1956 pg 34. cat no. 124. (not installed in exhibition)
Waite, Deborah. "From Personal Ornaments to Canoe Carvings and Shields: Re-presentations and Translations of Personal Ornaments as Social Markers, Western and Central Provinces, Solomon Islands." Pacific Arts (2013): 27-39.
Howarth, Crispin, and Deborah Waite. Varilaku: Pacific Arts from the Solomon Islands. National Gallery of Australia, 2011.
Howarth, Crispin, and Deborah Waite. Varilaku: Pacific Arts from the Solomon Islands. National Gallery of Australia, 2011.
