Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Mask
- Place of origin
-
Yauna →
Kainantu District →
Eastern Highlands Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Agarabi people
- Year
- collected 1972
- Media categories
- Ceremonial object, Botanical material, Animal material
- Materials used
- bark, cane, feathers, pit-pit seeds, white, brown, violet pigment
- Dimensions
-
30.5 x 40.6cm:
0 - Whole; 30.5cm (12")
0 - Whole; 40.6cm (16")
- Signature & date
- Board Minutes: 27 May 1977 CORRESPONDENCE: 4. From Mr S.G. Moriarty: Offering to sell to the Art Gallery of New South Wales his Eastern Highlands and Western Highlands artifacts (total value $51,000), and enclosing copy of valuation from the Wayne Heathcote Gallery, Paddington. Following discussion IT WAS 77/5-33 RESOLVED that the Gallery purchase the collection as proposed AGNSW Trustees Minutes Book, 27 May 1977, pg. 8734
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Accession number
- 281.1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (1)
-
Tony Tuckson (Egypt; England; Australia, b.1921, d.1973) (Author), Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Domain, 1973, 50. cat.no. H41
