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Details
- Other Title
- Head feathers
- Place where the work was made
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Marawaka
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Eastern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Baruya people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1969 - Media categories
- Weaving , Botanical material , Animal material
- Materials used
- woven split rattan, cassowary feathers (Casuarius), Papuan lorikeet feathers (Charmosyna papou), sulphur-crested cockatoo feather (Cacatua galerita), yellow orchid stem fibre (Dendrobium), feather shaft, plant fibre string
- Dimensions
- cockatoo feather 49.5 cm length; rattan support 19.5 to 21.0 cm diameter
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 824.1979.a-b
- Copyright
- © Baruya 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
Marawaka
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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, 2-3 (colour illus., detail), 105 (colour illus.), 161. cat.no. 4
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