Storyboard Table

75-4-3

From: Caroline Islands | Palau

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 75-4-3
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Caroline Islands | Palau
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Pigment
Description

Large table carved and painted as a storyboard. Four detachable legs. Around border of tabletop are geometric designs. Painted red, black, yellow, green. Four men wearing black belts are arriving in a canoe on the left, over a green sea. All are brandishing a red paddle with a black cross decoration in the middle and black handles.. In the middle as a black stone platform with a large yellow palm tree. Five women wearing red and yellow skirts are standing on the platform and holding black sticks with red ornamental tops in one hand, and a red crescent shaped object in the other. On the right in a tall yellow house with elaborately decorated upper facade. Plastic cover on table.

Credit Line Gift of Ruth M. Ostheimer, 1975

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