Title
Gourd mask
mid 20th century
collected 1969
Artists
Unknown Artist
No image
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Toiawaro
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Poroma District
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Southern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Nembi Valley (Angal-Kewa) people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1969 - Media categories
- Ceremonial object , Botanical material
- Materials used
- carved gourd, white, orange, green pigment
- Dimensions
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27.9 cm height
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0 - Whole, 27.9 cm (11")
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 240.1977
- Share
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Lynn Chua, Microchemical Journal, 'FTIR and Raman microscopy of organic binders and extraneous organic materials on painted ceremonial objects from the Highlands of Papua New Guinea', pg. 246-256, Amsterdam, 2017, 248, 251.
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Adrienne L. Kaeppler, Christian Kaufmann and Douglas Newton, L'Art Océanien, Paris, 1993, 593 (illus.).
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 26 (illus.), 49. cat.no. H2
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