Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Man's back ornament
- Place of origin
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Tari →
Southern Highlands Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Huli people
- Year
- collected 1965
- Media category
- Mixed media
- Materials used
- Blyth's Hornbill upper beak (Rhyticeros plicatus), 5 shards gold-lipped oyster shell (Pinctada Maxima), 4 pig tusks, 2-ply plant fibre string, red pigment
- Dimensions
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29.5 x 20.0 x 4.5cm dimensions variable:
0 - Whole; 17.5cm (6 7/8"); hornbill beak length
0 - Whole; 4.5cm (1 3/4"); hornbill beak width
0 - Whole; 4.5cm (1 3/4"); hornbill beak depth
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Accession number
- 249.1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (1)
-
Tony Tuckson (Egypt; England; Australia, b.1921, d.1973) (Author), Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Domain, 1973, 49. cat.no. H11
- Exhibition history (2)
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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 -.
