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Details
- Other Title
- Carved head
- Place where the work was made
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Vanuatu
- Cultural origin
- Ni-Vanuatu people
- Date
- mid 20th century
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- tree fern, 2 tusks, red and white pigments
- Dimensions
- 46.4 cm height overall; 27.9 cm height head
- Credit
- Purchased 1966
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- IA4.1966
- Artist information
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Ni-Vanuatu people
Works in the collection
- Share
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Places
Where the work was made
Vanuatu
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1966, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Apr 1967–07 May 1967
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1974 -
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1966 Acquisitions, Sydney, 1966, 79. cat.no. 164; titled 'Carved head', New Hebrides
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 41. cat.no. 1
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