Collection
Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Head
- Place of origin
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Okapa (Moke) →
Okapa District →
Eastern Highlands Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Fore people
- Year
- collected 1964
- Media category
- Mixed media
- Materials used
- carved tree fern, shells, bird feathers, 2 pig tusks, 9 mammal teeth, white and pale red natural pigments, plyed plant fibre string
- Dimensions
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36.5 x 17.0 x 21.5cm:
0 - Whole; 36.5cm (14 3/8")
0 - Whole; 17cm (6 11/16")
0 - Whole; 21.5cm (8 7/16")
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Accession number
- 290.1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (2)
-
Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art 1973, Domain, 1973. cat.no. H50
Tony Tuckson, Melanesian art 1966, Sydney, 1966. cat.no. 245
- Exhibition history (2)
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Melanesian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Apr 1966–22 May 1966
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1974 -
