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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Goroka District
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Eastern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Benabena people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1972 - Media categories
- Ceremonial object , Botanical material , Animal material
- Materials used
- coix seeds (Coix lacryma-jobi), vine, rattan, 10 pig tusks, looped plant-fibre string, bast fibre
- Dimensions
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58.5 x 28 x 27 cm
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0 - Whole, 55.9 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 231.1978
- Copyright
- © Benabena people, under the endorsement of PIMA's 'Code of Ethics'
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1974 -
Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 May 2014–10 Aug 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Susan Cochrane, Art Monthly Australia, 'Then and now: the Stanley Gordon Moriarty Collection of Papua New Guinea Highlands art', pg. 32-39, Canberra, May 2014, 38 (colour illus.). Interview with Natalie Wilson, curator of 'Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands' at the AGNSW, 2014.
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 33 (illus.), 51. cat.no. H66
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 103 (colour illus.), 161. cat.no. 45
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