NAA INV 09126300
USNM Accession 194095
Painting of Samoan dwellings (fales) (MS 391882), National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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.
The collection consists of one (1) painting depicting three Samoan dwellings or
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