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Carved wooden bowl with footed base, from the Marquesan Islands. Bowl is extensively carved with both traditional and non-traditional design motifs, concentric arches, triangles, and ovals. Interior is unadorned. Most likely made for the tourist trade.
bowls (vessels)
wood (plant material)
Bowl
"55.00" (Handwritten number on underside of foot)
Original To Stephen Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Presevation
2006.44.3622
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