Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Cooking pot
- Other titles:
- Pot
- Place of origin
-
Unantu →
Kainantu →
Eastern Highlands Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Agarabi (Agarabe) people
- Year
- collected 1968
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- earthenware, blackened, red earth pigment, incised decoration
- Dimensions
-
34.0cm height:
0 - Whole; 34cm (13 3/8"); diameter at neck of pot
0 - Whole; 20cm (7 7/8")
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Accession number
- 748.1979
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (2)
-
Margaret Tuckson (Australia) (Author), Patricia May (Author), The traditional pottery of Papua New Guinea, Kensington, 1982. For general information about Agarabi pottery, see pg. 158-160.
'Pottery in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea' by Virginia Watson, pg. 121-28., Southwestern Journal of Anthropology Summer 1955, Summer 1955. General article about pottery production in the Agarabi-speaking and Kamano-speaking communities of the Eastern Highlands.
