Title
Tobacco pipe
collected 1963
Artists
Unknown Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Laiagam
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Enga Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Enga people
- Date
- collected 1963
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- bamboo, poker work
- Dimensions
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34.3 cm length
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0 - Whole, 34.3 cm (13 1/2")
0 - Whole, 4 cm, aft (open) end
0 - Whole, 3.7 cm, fore (open) end
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 740.1979
- Share
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Places
Where the work was made
Laiagam
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
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
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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AC Haddon, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 'Smoking and Tobacco Pipes in New Guinea', pg. 1-278, London, 06 Jun 1946, 213. See page 123 for similar shaped and decorated pipes from the Tari valley and Lake Kutubu.
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Paul Sillitoe, Made in Niugini: Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, 'Tobacco pipes', pg. 206-212, London, 1988, 206, 218-219. See pages 206, 218-219 for similar designs and images of the production of bamboo tobacco pipes.
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