Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Mask, fighting stick and rattle to be worn together
- Other titles:
- Grassman
- Place of origin
-
Kainantu →
Eastern Highlands Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Tairora people
- Year
- collected 1966
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- cassowary (muruk) feathers on cane frame, pig's tusks, seeds and other materials
- Dimensions
-
182.9cm height:
a - Figure; 182.9cm; height
b - Rattle
c - Club
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Accession number
- 289.1977.a-c
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (1)
-
Tony Tuckson (Egypt; England; Australia, b.1921, d.1973) (Author), Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Domain, 1973, 51. cat.no. H49
- Exhibition history (2)
-
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 -.
