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Carved wooden bowl from the Marquesan Islands, exterior covered with typical Marquesan designs of triangles, concentric squares, six-petaled flower. Interior of bowl is unadorned. The bowl would have been used in everyday life.
bowls (vessels)
wood (plant material)
Bowl
Original To Stephen Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
E47,120
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
9 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memoral Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3621
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