Engraved Bamboo

2003-32-3

From: New Caledonia

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number 2003-32-3
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Caledonia
Section Oceanian
Materials Bamboo
Description

Three major splits. Geometric designs: triangles and diamonds. Designs: Europeans (?) smoking pipes, dancing, with children, or with weapons; some hunt crabs; men with rifles on European ship with birds; a saw (?); zig-zag shape; animals. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900.

Length 68 cm
Outside Diameter 4.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1994.X.11422 - Other Number

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