Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Mattock for digging barets (ditches)
- Other titles:
- Barrett spade
Matock
Mattock for digging "barets" - Place of origin
-
Mt Elimbari →
Simbu (Chimbu) Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Chuave language group
- Year
- collected 1966
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- wood, cane
- Dimensions
-
blade: 17.8cm width x 64.8cm length:
0 - Whole; 17.8cm (7")
0 - Whole; 64.8cm (25 1/2")
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Accession number
- 244.1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
A 'baret kaukau' is a sweet potato planted in 2-4 m beds on a rectangular grid of ditches, a method characteristic of Western Highlands to the east of Mt Hagen town and much of Chimbu.
- Bibliography (1)
-
Tony Tuckson (Egypt; England; Australia, b.1921, d.1973) (Author), Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Domain, 1973, 52. cat.no. H83; titled 'Mattock, for digging "barets"'
- Exhibition history (2)
-
Loan exhibition of Native art from the private collection previously not displayed of Mr S G Moriarty, Gallery Stephen Kellner, 15 Sep 1966–06 Oct 1966.
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Oct 1974 -.
