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Details
- Other Title
- Girdle
- Place where the work was made
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Yaviyufa
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Goroka District
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Eastern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Yaweyuha people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1968 - Media categories
- Ceremonial object , Mixed media
- Materials used
- barkcloth, plant fibre string, yellow orchid stem fibre (Dendrobium), reed, animal skin, red pigment
- Dimensions
- belt 100.0 cm length overall; rear barkcloth panel 61.0 cm length; decorated panel 16.0 cm width
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 234.1978
- Copyright
- © Yaweyuha people, under the endorsement of PIMA's 'Code of Ethics'
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
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 2 publications
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 51. cat.no. H69
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 130 (colour illus.), 163. cat.no. 74
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