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Spirit Board, gope
Urama
19th/early 20th century
Wood, pigment
TC 492

This spirit board and one now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art were seen and photographed in situ by Frank Hurley in 1923. Hurley visited the Papuan Gulf in 1920-21 and 1922-23.

Provenance:
John Friede, New York
Collected by Thomas Schultze-Westrum 1960s

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