Unknown
(Vanuatu)
- Title
- Male grade society figure
- Other titles:
- Carved figure
Male figure - grade symbol - Place of origin
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Ambrym (Ambrim) Island →
Vanuatu
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- carved tree-fern, red and white pigment
- Dimensions
-
167.6cm height
- Credit
- Purchased 1967
- Accession number
- IA1.1967
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (1)
-
Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly (vol. 13, no. 4) Jul 1972, Jul 1972, 697 (illus.). "The primitive art area is temporarily situated on the first floor. Exhibits are from the Sepik River, New Guinea, along with a grave-symbol figure from New Hebrides, in the left foreground". The 'Male grade society figure' is seen in profile on the left, together with other works collected by Tuckson in the 1960s and early 1970s.
- Exhibition history (2)
-
Acquisitions 1967, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Mar 1968–01 Apr 1968.
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Oct 1974 -.
