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Canoe Prow Ornament (Musumusu)
Canoe Prow Ornament (Musumusu)

Canoe Prow Ornament (Musumusu)

Dateprior to 1897
Object number67.57
Provenance[Mathias Komer, New York, New York]; sold to Richard Fuller (1897-1976), Seattle, Washington; gifted to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1967
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions5 9/16 x 2 1/16 x 3 3/8 in. (14.13 x 5.24 x 8.57 cm)
MediumWood with stain and inlaid mother-of-pearl
Food bowl: Frigate bird with shark
Melanesian
20th century
Object number: 65.24
Neck Pendant:  Hei Tiki
Polynesian
19th century
Object number: 68.142
Inro, Ojime and Netsuke
Japanese
mid 18th century
Object number: 55.52
Model of a Dragon Fish (makatsugyo)
Japanese
early 19th century
Object number: 91.184
Model of an Otobide Mask
Japanese
mid 19th century
Object number: 91.190
Model of a stirrup (abumi)
Japanese
ca. 1825 - 40
Object number: 91.194
Photo: Paul Macapia
Melanesian
19th century
Object number: 81.17.1443
Canoe-Prow Splashboard (Rajim)
Melanesian
early 20th Century
Object number: 70.120
Melanesian
19th century
Object number: 2020.5.1
Small covered box (kobako)
Japanese
19th century
Object number: 91.127
Incense box
Japanese
ca. 1850
Object number: 91.129