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Club

19th century
Object PlaceMarquesas Islands, French Polynesia
Medium/TechniqueWood
DimensionsOverall: 133.4 cm (52 1/2 in.)
Credit LineBequest of William E. Teel
Accession number2014.312
On View
On view
ProvenanceSaid to come from the Webster-Plass collection (Webster Plass, b. 1895 – d. 1952 and his wife Margaret Plass, b. 1896-d. 1990), Philadelphia. May 5, 1997, anonymous (“private New England collector”) sale, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 133, to William Teel, Marblehead, MA; 2014, bequest of William Teel to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 26, 2014)
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