Title
Board from ceremonial house
mid 20th century
collected 1963
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Mask board
Face board - Place where the work was made
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Jiginimbut village
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Yanget Valley
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Middle Sepik River
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East Sepik Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Sawos people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1963 - Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- carved wood, bamboo cane, natural fibre tassels, cassowary feathers, white and ochre natural pigments, charcoal
- Dimensions
- 144.0 x 94.0 x 17.0 cm
- Credit
- Purchased 1976
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 164.1976
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Sawos people
Works in the collection
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales (Editor), Catalogue of acquisitions 1976, Sydney, 1976, 96 (illus.). cat.no. 295: titled 'Face board'
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Stan Moriarty, Collection of S G Moriarty, Dee Why, 1970, (illus.). This mask can be seen with other objects on page captioned: 'Sepik artifacts with a display of hooks', in the house of Stan Moriarty in Dee Why.
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Tony Tuckson, Melanesian art, Sydney, 1966, 11. cat.no. 99: Mask board. Carved in relief, curvilinear design. Cassowary feathers and fibre tassels. Wood, painted white, black and red, 56h x 37w, Jiginimba (north of Korogo), Sepik River. Coll: S.G. Moriarty. M974.
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