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Sergo fern wood, boar's tusk, tapa cloth, spider web, and pigment Figure

X65.7790 Figure

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Object Name: Figure

Artist: Unknown

Place of Origin: Malekula Island, Vanuatu

Date/Era: Probably early 20th century

Dimensions: H: 87 cm

Medium/Materials: Sego fern wood, boar’s tusk, tapa cloth, spider web, pigment

Credit Line: Fowler Museum at UCLA. Gift of the Wellcome Trust.

Accession Number: X65.7790

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Source: Marla C. Berns, World Arts, Local Lives: The Collections of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, 2014.

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