Treasure Box (Wakahuia)
1800s
Maker Unknown
Oceania
Treasure Box (Wakahuia), 1800s. Polynesia, New Zealand, Maori people, 19th century. Wood with abalone shell; overall: 17.2 cm (6 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Collection, Gift of William Mathewson Milliken 1961.405
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- wood with abalone shell
- Dimensions
- Overall: 17.2 cm (6 3/4 in.)
- Departments
- Oceania
- Accession Number
- 1961.405
- Credit Line
- The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Collection, Gift of William Mathewson Milliken
- Exhibitions
- The Imagination of Primitive Man, Year in Review - 1962, The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 40, p. 117, color repr. p. 52.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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