Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Decorated pelvic girdle
- Other titles:
- Penis girdle
Penis cover
Girdle
Waist belt - Place of origin
-
Kainantu District →
Eastern Highlands Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Tairora people
- Year
- collected 1966
- Media category
- Mixed media
- Materials used
- carved wood, red and blue pigments, black natural pigment, barkcloth, plant fibre string, woven cane waistband, animal skin with traces of hair
- Dimensions
-
dimensions variable:
0 - Whole; 27cm; length of wood sheath
0 - Whole; 24cm; width of wood sheath
0 - Whole; 16cm; depth of wood sheath
0 - Whole; 58cm; length of barkcloth strip
0 - Whole; 25cm; diameter of waistband / girdle
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Accession number
- 729.1979
- Location
- Not on display
