Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Tapa dance wand
- Other titles:
- Dance shield
- Place of origin
-
Gazelle Peninsula →
East New Britain Province →
New Britain →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Baining people
- Year
- collected 1965
- Media categories
- Ceremonial object, Sculpture
- Materials used
- mulberry bark cloth, bamboo, natural pigments
- Dimensions
-
495.2 x 63.5cm overall
- Credit
- Purchased 1965
- Accession number
- IA4.1965
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (5)
-
Susan Cochrane (Australia) (Editor), Max Quanchi (Australia) (Editor), Hunting the collectors: Pacific collections in Australian museums, art galleries and archives, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2007, 233.
Tony Tuckson (Egypt; England; Australia, b.1921, d.1973) (Author), Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Domain, 1973, 42. cat.no. 10
Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly Apr 1966, Apr 1966, (illus.).
Bulletin 24 Jul 1965, 24 Jul 1965.
1965 Acquisitions 1965, 1965, 80. cat.no. 146
- Exhibition history (3)
-
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1965, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 09 Mar 1966–03 Apr 1966.
Melanesian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 20 Apr 1966–22 May 1966.
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Oct 1974 -.
