Painting of Samoan dwellings (fales)
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA INV 09126300

USNM Accession 194095
name: label: Creator
content: Unknown
place: label: Place
content: Oceania
label: Place
content: Samoa
topic: label: Topic
content: Works of art
creator: label: Creator
content: Unknown
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoans
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Paintings (visual works) (19 x 16 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
container: label: Container
content: Box 391882
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated to the United States National Museum by Phelps Phelps, governor of American Samoa (1951-1952), in 1952.  Transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives in August 1971.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS391882
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Paintings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Paintings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Paintings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of one (1) painting depicting three Samoan dwellings or fales.

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