Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Male decoy figure
- Place of origin
-
Okapa District →
Eastern Highlands Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Year
- collected 1964
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- wood, shells, seeds, rattan, fur and other material
- Dimensions
-
a - Figure; 148cm; height
b - Fibre, orchid stem, tapa neck decoration; 30cm; length approx. overall
c - Shell headdress; 14cm; diam. approx. 4 strands
d - Tusk nose ornament; 9cm; diam.
e - Tears of Job waist decoration; 16cm; diam approx.
f - String headdress; 20cm; approx. each strand
g - Feathered headdress; 25cm; length
h - Plaited string waist decoration; 20cm; diam.
i - Grass lap lap; 34 x 25cm; diam.
j - Grass lap lap with double ply string; 25 x 20cm
k - Black bead waist decoration; 24cm
l - Dilly bag
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Accession number
- 301.1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (1)
-
Tony Tuckson (Egypt; England; Australia, b.1921, d.1973) (Author), Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Domain, 1973. cat.no. H61
