Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Ocarina (morimuge)
- Other titles:
- Whistle
- Place of origin
-
Kundiawa →
Simbu (Chimbu) Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Sinasina people
- Year
- collected 1968
- Media categories
- Musical instrument, Ceramic
- Materials used
- moulded unfired clay, green/blue pigment
- Dimensions
-
7.6 x 3.9 x 4.1cm
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Accession number
- 268.1978.1
- 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, 52. cat.no. H107
'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.
