Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Male ancestor figure
- Other titles:
- Figure
- Place of origin
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Asaro →
Daulo District →
Eastern Highlands Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Year
- collected 1968
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- carved wood, glass shards, bamboo, feathers, teeth, tapa cloth, cowrie shell, natural earth pigments, charcoal
- Dimensions
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137.2 x 32.0 x 22.0cm approx.:
a - Figure; 135cm (53 1/8"); height approx. without headdress
b - Grass skirt; 51 x 50cm (20 1/16 x 19 11/16"); height x width approx.
c - Bamboo necklace; 54 x 4.3cm (21 1/4 x 1 11/16"); length x width approx.
d - Tapa back decoration; 40 x 17cm (15 3/4 x 6 11/16"); each section approx.
e - Bamboo head decoration; 65cm (25 9/16"); height overall each side
f - Ear decoration; 20cm (7 7/8"); height
g - Headdress; 52cm (20 1/2"); height overall
h - Dilly bag; 52 x 15cm (20 1/2 x 5 7/8"); length x width
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Accession number
- 302.1977.a-h
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (1)
-
Tony Tuckson (Egypt; England; Australia, b.1921, d.1973) (Author), Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Domain, 1973, 51. cat.no. H62
- Exhibition history (1)
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Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Oct 1974 -.
