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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Pangia
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Southern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Wiru people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1967 - Media categories
- Mixed media , Ceremonial object
- Materials used
- wood, yellow and red ochre pigments, blue natural pigment (vivianite), human hair, cassowary feathers (Casuarius), gourd (Lagenaria siceraria), feather shaft, plant fibre string, black seeds, machine-made beads, plastic, mollusc shell, gold-lipped oyster shell (Pinctada maxima), pig tail, plaited split rattan, plant resin, bamboo, stone, sedge grass
- Dimensions
- 110.0 x 50.0 x 29.0 cm figure; 29.0 x 31.0 x 8.5 cm basket; bamboo 18.0 cm length
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 242.1977.a-c
- Copyright
- © Wiru people, under the endorsement of the Pacific Islands Museums Association's (PIMA) Code of Ethics
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Places
Where the work was made
Pangia
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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 3 publications
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Lynn Chua, Microchemical Journal, 'FTIR and Raman microscopy of organic binders and extraneous organic materials on painted ceremonial objects from the Highlands of Papua New Guinea', pg. 246-256, Amsterdam, 2017, 248, 250.
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 27 (illus.), 49. cat.no. H4
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 142 (colour illus.), 163. cat.no. 84
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