Fishing Canoe Prow
1800s
Maker Unknown
Oceania
Fishing Canoe Prow, 1800s. Polynesia, New Zealand, Maori people, 19th century. Wood with haliotis (pearl) shell inlay; overall: 35.3 cm (13 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Collection, Gift of William Mathewson Milliken 1967.231
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- wood with haliotis (pearl) shell inlay
- Dimensions
- Overall: 35.3 cm (13 7/8 in.)
- Departments
- Oceania
- Accession Number
- 1967.231
- Credit Line
- The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Collection, Gift of William Mathewson Milliken
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1968, 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. 39, p. 117, color repr. p. 54.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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