Title
Kak (wide bark belt)
mid 20th century
collected 1963
Artists
Unknown Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Man's belt
- Place where the work was made
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Mount Hagen
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Western Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Melpa people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1963 - Media category
- Mixed media
- Materials used
- coiled tree bark, incised designs, red and white natural pigments, plant fibre cord
- Dimensions
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overall bark 174.0 cm length, approx.; 24.7 to 26.0 cm diameter, variable; 16.1 cm width
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0 - Whole, 16.1 cm (6 5/16"), width of bark at widest point
0 - Whole, 174 cm (68 1/2"), length of bark, approx.
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 290.1978
- Copyright
- © Melpa people, under the endorsement of the Pacific Islands Museums Association's (PIMA) Code of Ethics
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Places
Where the work was made
Mount Hagen
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
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, 54. cat.no. H128
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 121 (colour illus.), 162. cat.no. 66
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