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Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Belt
- Place of origin
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Minj District →
Jiwaka Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Wahgi people
- Year
- collected 1963
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- 34 lengths of bamboo, each drilled at top and bottom with two holes and threaded onto green machine-made cotton cord, pokerwork design applied to outside surface of each individual bamboo slat
- Dimensions
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12.0 x 24.0 x 24.0cm overall:
0 - Whole; 73cm (28 3/4"); approx. circumference inside belt
0 - Whole; 24cm (9 7/16"); approx. diameter of belt
0 - Whole; 12cm (4 3/4"); width of belt at widest point
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Accession number
- 292.1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (1)
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Tony Tuckson (Egypt; England; Australia, b.1921, d.1973) (Author), Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Domain, 1973, 38 (illus.), 54. cat.no. H130
- Exhibition history (2)
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The "Moriarty" Exhibition, Manly Regional Art Gallery and Museum, 01 Nov 1964–31 Dec 1964.
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Oct 1974 -.
