Unknown Indigenous Pacific Islands or First Nations Australian artist
Ancestral Suspension Hook

Ancestral Suspension Hook

Public Domain

Ancestral Suspension Hook
Artist
CultureIatmul people
Titles
  • Ancestral Suspension Hook
Date1870–1900
PlacePapua New Guinea
MediumWood, cowrie shells, and pigment
Dimensions18 1/4 × 7 × 4 in. (46.4 × 17.8 × 10.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Wallace S. Wilson in honor of his wife, and William N. Mathis in honor of his mother Isabel B. Wilson at "One Great Night in November, 2011"
Object number2011.1028
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
Lower Brown Corridor
Exposé

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Pacific Islands and Australia
Object Type
ProvenancePaul Wirz (1892–1955), Switzerland, by 1955; Lorenz Eckhardt, Switzerland, by 2011; John Friede, Rye, New York, by 2011; [Joel Cooner Gallery, Dallas, by 2011]; purchased by MFAH, 2011.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in ink on back of lower body: 159

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