Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Male figure to guard men's house
- Place of origin
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Eastern Highlands Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Awiyaana (Auyana) people
- Year
- collected 1964
- Media categories
- Sculpture, Ceremonial object
- Materials used
- wood, string, feathers, rattan, grass, tusks, shells, natural pigments
- Dimensions
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162.0cm height:
a - Figure; 162cm; height
b - Black bead waist decoration; 70cm; length approx.
c - Shell waist decoration; 17cm; diam.
d - Cassowary feather headdress; 24 x 26cm; diam.
e - Tusk neck ornament; 10cm; diam.
f - Red feather and fibre headdress; 18cm; diam.
g - Cowrie shell headdress; 17cm; diam.
h - Rattan, twisted fibre and shell headdress; 17cm
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Accession number
- 644.1979.a-h
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (1)
-
Tony Tuckson (Egypt; England; Australia, b.1921, d.1973) (Author), Melanesian art, Sydney, 1966, 18. cat.no. 242
- Exhibition history (2)
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The "Moriarty" Exhibition, Manly Regional Art Gallery and Museum, 01 Nov 1964–31 Dec 1964.
Melanesian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 20 Apr 1966–22 May 1966.
