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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Wagmil
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Anglimp-South Waghi District
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Jiwaka Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Wahgi people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1963 - Media categories
- Botanical material , Weaving , Ceremonial object
- Materials used
- coiled tree bark, wrapped with thin strips of plant fibre, applied woven diamond pattern in natural and dark brown plant fibre, cotton gauze fabric
- Dimensions
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overall 84.5 cm length; 21.0 to 26.5 cm diameter; 13.0 cm width
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0 - Whole, 13 cm (5 1/8"), width of belt
0 - Whole, 26.5 cm, diameter at widest point
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 291.1978
- Copyright
- © Wahgi people, under the endorsement of the Pacific Islands Museums Association's (PIMA) Code of Ethics
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 May 2014–10 Aug 2014
Painter in Paradise: William Dobell in New Guinea, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 29 May 2015–12 Jul 2015
Painter in Paradise: William Dobell in New Guinea, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, 16 Oct 2015–06 Dec 2015
Painter in Paradise: William Dobell in New Guinea, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane, 05 Mar 2016–24 Apr 2016
Painter in Paradise: William Dobell in New Guinea, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, 13 May 2016–03 Jul 2016
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 37 (illus.), 54. cat.no. H129
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Natalie Wilson, Painter in paradise: William Dobell in New Guinea, 'Painter in paradise: Dobell's first trip to New Guinea', pg. 10-59, Sydney, 2015, 38 (colour illus.), 122. cat.no. 38
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 121 (colour illus.), 162. cat.no. 67
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