Architectural Carving
2003-32-23
From: New Caledonia
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2003-32-23 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Caledonia |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment | Nail |
| Description | Slab with face carved in relief and colored red and black. Broad nose and open curved mouth resemble those on masks from the center and south of La Grande Terre, except that in this case there is a tongue, hanging out. Sculpture applied to outside of house, flanking door post? Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900. |
| Height | 89.2 cm |
| Width | 57.9 cm |
| Thickness | 19.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1994.X.11455 - Other Number | L-552-17 - Other Number |
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