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House Gable Ornament

Maori, 1700-1899

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Maori

House Gable Ornament

Maori, 1700-1899

Physical Qualities Wood, H. 29 in. (73.7 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number 1955.251.172
Face of an ancestor
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. 38. cat no. 172.
Skinner, Damian. The Maori Meeting House. 2016.

Mead, Sidney M. Te Toi Whakario. Raupo, 1986.

Mead, Sidney M. Te Maori: Maori Art from New Zealand Collections. 1984.

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