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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Tari
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Tari-Pori District
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Hela Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Huli people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1963 - Media category
- Jewellery
- Materials used
- gold-lipped oyster shell (Pinctada maxima), 16 cowrie shells (Cypraeidae), 11 pig tusks, red seeds (probably Adenanthera pavonina), plaited plant-fibre cord
- Dimensions
- decoration 43.5 cm length; overall 55.0 cm length; pearlshell pendant 11.5 x 16.5 cm; tusks 5.5 to 12.0 cm length
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 657.1979
- Copyright
- © Huli people, under the endorsement of PIMA's 'Code of Ethics'
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
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 1 publication
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 111 (colour illus.), 162. cat.no. 57
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