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Description: | Carved wooden box with lid to hold feathers worn in the hair by a Maori chief. Cigar-shaped with a projecting grotesque head at each end. Entirely covered with an elaborately carved design of spirals and angles. [Register]
Box with flat lid in form of canoe. Highly carved. New Zealand.
Accession number: NCM 1938-181 | Subjects: | food and drink MAORI transport woodwork NEW ZEALAND | Temporal: | 1800-1900? | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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