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
- 36 lengths of bamboo, each drilled at top and bottom with two holes and threaded onto 2-ply plant fibre cord, pokerwork design applied to outside surface of each individual bamboo slat
- Dimensions
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11.9 x 98.0 x 0.5cm overall:
0 - Whole; 11.9cm (4 11/16"); widest bamboo slat
0 - Whole; 75.5cm (29 3/4"); overall length of strung bamboo slats
0 - Whole; 98cm (38 9/16"); overall length, including plant fibre ties
0 - Whole; 0.5cm (3/16"); depth, approx.
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Accession number
- 293.1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (2)
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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. H131
Tony Tuckson (Egypt; England; Australia, b.1921, d.1973) (Author), Melanesian art, Sydney, 1966, 18. cat.no. 250
- Exhibition history (3)
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The "Moriarty" Exhibition, Manly Regional Art Gallery and Museum, 01 Nov 1964–31 Dec 1964.
Melanesian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 20 Apr 1966–22 May 1966.
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Oct 1974 -.
