Title
Cassowary bone dagger
mid 20th century
collected 1969
Artists
Unknown Artist
No image
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Details
- Other Title
- Spoon/dagger
- Place where the work was made
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Lake Kopiago
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Southern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Duna people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1969 - Media categories
- Ceremonial object , Animal material
- Materials used
- cassowary bone, plant fibre string, gold-lipped oyster shell (Pinctada maxima)
- Dimensions
- 26.0 cm length
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 805.1979.6
- Copyright
- © Duna people, under the endorsement of the Pacific Islands Museums Association's (PIMA) Code of Ethics
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Places
Where the work was made
Lake Kopiago
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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, 137 (colour illus.), 163. cat.no. 79; titled 'Duna man's apparel (selected items)'
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