Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Gable mask
- Other titles:
- Dance board
- Place of origin
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Torembi Village →
Yanget Valley →
Middle Sepik River →
East Sepik Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Sawos people
- Year
- collected 1963
- Media category
- Ceremonial object
- Materials used
- sago spathe, wood and cane frame, woven natural fibre, cassowary feathers, white and ochre natural earth pigments, charcoal
- Dimensions
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136.0 x 76.2 x 20.0cm:
0 - Whole; 136cm (53 9/16")
0 - Whole; 76.2cm (30")
0 - Whole; 20cm (7 7/8")
- Credit
- Purchased 1976
- Accession number
- 161.1976
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (4)
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Suzanne Greub (Switzerland) (Author), Authority and ornament: art of the Sepik River, Basel, 1985. see cat.no. 333, 'Gable mask from a men's house' for similar gable mask from Torembi Village in the Middle Sepik. Colour reproduction.
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Editor), Catalogue of acquisitions 1976, Domain, 1976, 95 (illus.). cat.no. 292
Stan Moriarty (Australia, b.1906, d.1978) (Author), Collection of S G Moriarty, Dee Why, 1970, (illus.). This mask can be seen with other objects on page captioned: 'A corner of the Sepik collection featuring, canoe prows, pottery, lime holders etc.', in the house of Stan Moriarty in Dee Why.
Tony Tuckson (Egypt; England; Australia, b.1921, d.1973) (Author), Melanesian art, Sydney, 1966, 11. cat.no. 103: "Board in the form of a face. Bark on frame painted light red and white on dark grey ground. Basketry hanging eyes, nose, mouth and tongue, and ears. Cassowary feather "beard", 46h x 30w, Sepik River. Coll: S.G. Moriarty. M969".
- Exhibition history (1)
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Melanesian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 20 Apr 1966–22 May 1966.
