Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Yupini (fertility figure)
- Other titles:
- Male fertility figure
Upin
Yupini - Place of origin
-
Kandep →
Enga Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Kandepe people
- Year
- collected 1971
- Media categories
- Weaving, Ceremonial object, Mixed media
- Materials used
- coiled plant fibre coated with pig grease, cowrie shells, Job's Tears (Coix lacryma-jobi) seeds, bird skull, machine-wove cotton fabric, dried plant leaves, red and white pigments, cassowary feathers, plant fibre string
- Dimensions
-
121.5 x 49.0 x 27.0cm overall:
b - headdress; 21 x 22 x 25cm
a - figure; 100.5 x 49 x 27cm
- Credit
- Purchased 1971
- Accession number
- 143.1971.a-b
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (6)
-
'Exclusive showing of the Moriarty PNG Highlands art collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales' by David Said, pg. 2-3., OAS Newsletter Jan 2007, Jan 2007, 2 (illus.).
'Kultfiguren aus Flechtwerk im zentralen Hochland von PNG' by Heinz Christian Dosedla, pg. 86-98., Abhandlungen und Berichte des Staatlichen Museums fur Volkerkunde Dresden [Band 41] 1984, 1984. General reference to 'timbu wara' and 'yupin' plaited fibre figures.
'The Kepele Ritual of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea' by Philip Gibbs, pg. 434-448., Anthropos 1978, 1978. General reference to 'yupin' plaited fibre figures and description of the Kepele Ritual.
'Basketwork fertility figures from the Western Enga and nearby groups, Western and Southern Highlands, New Guinea' by Roger Neich, pg. 33-62., Records (vol. 1, no. 2) 25 Nov 1975, 25 Nov 1975, 37 (illus.), 44-45. figure no. 8
Tony Tuckson (Egypt; England; Australia, b.1921, d.1973) (Author), Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Domain, 1973, 42. cat.no. 13 The Highlands
'Ein Fruchtbarkeitsidol aus dem westlichen Hochland von Neuguinea' by Willibald Blank, pg. 907-08., Anthropos 1963, 1963. General reference to 'yupin' plaited fibre figures. Reproduction of 'yupin' figure in the collection of the Anthropos Institute.
- Exhibition history (1)
-
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Oct 1974 -.
