The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Architectural Ornament

Architectural Ornament

Date:: late 19th–early 20th century
Geography:: Vanuatu, Malakula
Culture:: Malakula
Medium:: Bark, leaves, bamboo, vegetable fiber, paint
Dimensions:: H. 62 1/4 x W. 38 3/8 x D. 4 3/4in. (158.1 x 97.5 x 12.1cm)
Classification:: Bark-Sculpture
Credit Line:: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979
Accession Number:: 1979.206.1447

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 354

Provenance

Wolfgang Paalen, Taxco, Mexico; [Ralph C. Altman, Los Angeles, until 1955]; Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, 1955, on loan to The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1956–1978
See also
What
Sculpture (24,342)

Grass (778)

Bamboo (645)
Where
Oceania (1,401)

Vanuatu (65)

Malakula (7)

Malampa (7)
In the Museum
Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas (11,540)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Melanesia, 1900 A.D.–present

Melanesia, 1800–1900 A.D.

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