Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Ocarina (morimuge)
- Other titles:
- Flute
Whistle - Place of origin
-
Kundiawa →
Simbu (Chimbu) Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Sinasina people
- Year
- collected 1972
- Media categories
- Musical instrument, Ceramic
- Materials used
- moulded unfired clay with incised geometric design, burnished, white pigment
- Dimensions
-
12.2 x 10.2 x 4.5cm
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Accession number
- 267.1978.1
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (3)
-
Margaret Tuckson (Australia) (Author), Patricia May (Author), The traditional pottery of Papua New Guinea, Kensington, 1982, 156-157, 161. General description of Sinasina clay ocarinas, with two examples reproduced.
Tony Tuckson (Egypt; England; Australia, b.1921, d.1973) (Author), Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Domain, 1973, 35 (illus.), 52. cat.no. H106
'Mountain tribes of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea from Mt Chapman to Mt Hagen' by E.W.P. Chinnery, pg. 113-121., Man Aug 1934, Aug 1934. Clay whistles of the 'China Siva' tribe are reproduced and described on pg. 119-120.
