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Amo (house post figure)
Māori artist, ca. 1800
- Artist
- Māori artist
- Date
- ca. 1800
- Culture or place
- Maori people, Te Arawa
- Medium
- Wood
- Size
- H. 43 × W, 11 × D. 5 in. (109.2 × 27.9 × 12.7 cm)
- Type
- Wood-Architectural
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Licence
- Public domain: free to use, no permission needed
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