dish
human history
oval whalebone dish. decorated around outside of rim with twenty small human figures carved in high relief. handle surmounted by two pigs.
illustrated in "Polynesian Artifacts" pl 22, also Buck, Bishop and Bull (1944) p. 441, fig 268.
Accession number: 1950.128 Last Update: 9 Oct 2026
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1950.128
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04 Jul 1950
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31542 (ethnology)
476 (Oldman Collection)
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