Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Shield
- Place of origin
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Aiyura Valley →
Kainantu District →
Eastern Highlands Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Tairora people
- Year
- collected 1966
- Media category
- Arms & armour
- Materials used
- wood, bark, white pigment, barkcloth cord handle, cane, 2-ply plant fibre thread, embedded arrow tip
- Dimensions
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122.5 x 50.3 x 1.8cm:
0 - Whole; 122.5cm (48 1/4"); approx.
0 - Whole; 50.3cm (19 13/16"); approx.
0 - Whole; 1.8cm (11/16"); approx.
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Accession number
- 261.1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (5)
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John Friede (United States of America) (Author), New Guinea art: masterpieces form the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede: Volume 1, San Francisco, 2005. cat.no. 578 shows similar shield from the Lamari River area: Tairora or Awa people; colour plate pg. 609
John Friede (United States of America) (Author), New Guinea art: masterpieces form the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede: Volume 2, San Francisco, 2005. cat.no. 578 shows similar shield from the Lamari River area: Tairora or Awa people; entry pg. 187
'Highlands Art of New Guinea' by Chris Boylan and Greta North, pg. 73-83., The world of tribal arts Winter 1997, Winter 1997, 78 (colour illus.). fig.no. 15
Tony Tuckson (Egypt; England; Australia, b.1921, d.1973) (Author), Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Domain, 1973, 52. cat.no. H100
Gallery Stephen Kellner (Australia) (Author), Native art: from the private collection previously not displayed of Mr S G Moriarty, Waverley, Sep 1966. cat.no. 21
- 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 -.
