Female figure, mid 20th century, collected 1967 ::

Place where the work was made: Pangia → Southern Highlands Province → 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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Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 May 2014–10 Aug 2014

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.
Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 27 (illus.), 49. cat.no. H4
Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 142 (colour illus.), 163. cat.no. 84