Title
Nowkwi mima ('nowkwi' woman)
mid 20th century
Artists
Unknown Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Female fertility figure, yam cult
Noukwi
Nogwi - Place where the work was made
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Ambunti Mountains (Washkuk Hills)
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East Sepik Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Kwoma people
- Date
- mid 20th century
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- quilla wood, charcoal, lime, ochre pigment, grass fibre
- Dimensions
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132.6 x 22.0 x 17.3 cm
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0 - Whole, 132.6 cm (52 3/16")
0 - Whole, 22 cm (8 11/16")
0 - Whole, 17.3 cm (6 13/16")
- Credit
- Purchased 1971
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 150.1971
- Copyright
- Share
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Christian Kaufmann, Planters and artists: the roles of leading members of the Kwoma in Papua New Guinea, Göttingen, 1972. For general information about the Kwoma people of the Waskuk Hills.
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