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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Chuave District
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Simbu (Chimbu) Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Chuave people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1966 - Media categories
- Ceremonial object , Botanical material , Animal material
- Materials used
- gourd (Lagenaria siceraria), plant resin, mammalian teeth, feathers, orange and brown pigments, plant fibre string
- Dimensions
- 35.0 x 22.0 x 11.5 cm
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 285.1977
- Copyright
- © Chuave people, under the endorsement of the Pacific Islands Museums Association's (PIMA) Code of Ethics
- Artist information
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Chuave people
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1974 -
Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 May 2014–10 Aug 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 50. cat.no. H45
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 78 (colour illus.), 160. cat.no. 24
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