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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Kainantu
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Eastern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Tairora people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1966 - Media categories
- Mixed media , Sculpture
- Materials used
- wood, quartz stone, dark brown machine-made yarn, iron nails, rattan, yellow orchid stem fibre (Dendrobium), coix seeds (Coix lacryma-jobi), plant fibre string, barkcloth, shells, cotton, pig tusk, synthetic pigments (yellow, green, black and red), sedge grass, feathers, marsupial fur, plaited split rattan, animal bone, cassowary claws (Casuarius)
- Dimensions
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151.0 x 40.0 x 27.0 cm
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a - figure, 148 cm, height approx
b - coix seed waist decoration, 46 cm
c - plaited fibre waist decoration, 30 x 22 cm, (2 sections)
d - grass lap lap, 39 x 30 cm, at waist
e - looped plant-fibre string and barkcloth loincloth, 60 x 50 cm
f - shell and black seed necklace, 27 cm, diam. approx.
g - barkcloth head adornment, 43 x 22 cm
h - coix seed necklace, 78 cm, length
i - neck decoration with armbands, 65 cm, length
j - cane ringlet necklace, 58 cm, length
k - barkcloth loincloth, 25 cm, height
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 304.1977.a-k
- Copyright
- © Tairora 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
Loan exhibition of Native art from the private collection previously not displayed of Mr S G Moriarty, Gallery Stephen Kellner, Australia, 15 Sep 1966–06 Oct 1966
Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 May 2014–10 Aug 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 32 (illus.), 51. cat.no. H64
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 146 (colour illus.), 148 (illus.), 149, 163. cat.no. 88
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