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.

Nama tāpiringa: 1950.128 Whakahounga o Mua: 9 Oct 2026
Wāhi
Rurutu/Austral Islands/French Polynesia/Pacific
Accession Number

1950.128

Rā Tāpiringa

04 Jul 1950

Tohu Tuakiri Kē

31542 (ethnology)

476 (Oldman Collection)

Wāhanga

Pacific

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