Collection
Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Mask, fighting stick and rattle to be worn together
- Other titles:
- Mask for initiation ceremonies
Grassman - Place of origin
-
Kainantu →
Eastern Highlands Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Tairora people
- Year
- collected 1966
- Media categories
- Sculpture, Ceremonial object
- Materials used
- cassowary (muruk) feathers on cane frame, pig's tusks, seeds and other materials
- Dimensions
-
182.9cm height
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1974
- Accession number
- 31.1974
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (2)
-
Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art 1973, Domain, 1973, 51. cat.no. H49
Natalie Wilson, Hunting the collectors: Pacific collections in Australian museums, art galleries and archives, '(Works of) paradise and yet: Stanley Gordon Moriarty, Tony Tuckson and the collection of Oceanic Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales', pg. 221-241, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2007, 232.
- Exhibition history (2)
-
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
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1974 -
