Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Cooking pot
- Other titles:
- Pot
- Place of origin
-
Kainantu District →
Eastern Highlands Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- probably Tairora people
- Year
- collected 1966
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- earthenware, blackened, pig's tusk, woven natural fibres, string, fabric
- Dimensions
-
25.0cm pot rim (diam.); 35.5cm height:
0 - Whole; 25cm (9 13/16"); top rim
0 - Whole; 35.5cm (14"); from top of base to rim
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Accession number
- 746.1979
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (1)
-
Margaret Tuckson (Australia) (Author), Patricia May (Author), The traditional pottery of Papua New Guinea, Kensington, 1982. See pages 191-194 for similarly shaped vessels from the Rawa people, collected at Henganofi in Eastern Highlands Province.
