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Ancestor board

Ancestor board

20th century
Object PlacePapuan Gulf, Papua New Guinea
Medium/TechniqueWood, pigments
DimensionsLegacy: 40 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
Credit LineBequest of William E. Teel
Accession number2014.109
On View
On view
ClassificationsSculpture
Provenance1930, said to have been acquired in Papua New Guinea by Paul Wirz (b. 1892 – d. 1955), Basel and Ulopo, Papua New Guinea [see note]. May 20, 1970, sold by the Galerie Alain Schoffel, Paris, to William and Bertha Teel, Marblehead, MA; 2014, bequest of William Teel to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 26, 2014)

NOTE: Wirz was an ethnographer and scholar who built a large collection of art from Papua New Guinea.