Roof Spire
2003-32-14
From: New Caledonia | Grande Terre
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2003-32-14 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Kanak |
| Provenience | New Caledonia | Grande Terre |
| Date Made | Before 1900 |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment |
| Technique | Carved | Painted |
| Description | Roof spire. Wood, painted red and black. At center a carved face with hooked nose, flanked on each side by five lateral spikes. Below face, a round disc with red-outlined lozenge, tapering to pointed stake at bottom. Above face, another disc with red-outlined lozenge. Such spires surmounted the conical thatched roofs of New Caledonian chief's houses. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900. |
| Height | 132.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1993.X.1597 - Other Number | L-552-2 - Other Number |
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