Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Female figure
- Place of origin
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Okapa District →
Eastern Highlands Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- probably Fore people
- Year
- collected 1964
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- wood, mollusc shells, beads, teeth, grass, plyed and woven/knotted plant fibres, barkcloth, iron nails
- Dimensions
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153.0cm height approx.:
a - Figure; 153 x 46 x 19cm; height x width x depth approx.
b - Necklace; 120cm; length of band approx
c - Headdress; 28cm; diam. approx.
d - Grass skirt; 36.5cm; length
d - Grass skirt; 60cm; length of waistband with fringe attached
d - Grass skirt; 61cm; length of left band
d - Grass skirt; 8cm; length of right looped band
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Accession number
- 579.1979.a-d
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (1)
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Tony Tuckson (Egypt; England; Australia, b.1921, d.1973) (Author), Melanesian art, Sydney, 1966. cat.no. 243
- Exhibition history (1)
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Melanesian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 20 Apr 1966–22 May 1966.
