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Title
Mask
collected 1972
Artists
Unknown Artist

Details
Place where the work was made
Yauna
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Kainantu District
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Eastern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
Date
collected 1972
Materials used
bark, cane, feathers, pit-pit seeds, white, brown, violet pigment
Dimensions
30.5 x 40.6 cm :
0 - Whole; 30.5 cm
0 - Whole; 40.6 cm
Signature & date
Board Minutes: 27 May 1977
CORRESPONDENCE:
4. From Mr S.G. Moriarty:
Offering to sell to the Art Gallery of New South Wales his Eastern Highlands and Western Highlands artifacts (total value $51,000), and enclosing copy of valuation from the Wayne Heathcote Gallery, Paddington.
Following discussion IT WAS
77/5-33 RESOLVED that the Gallery purchase the collection as proposed
AGNSW Trustees Minutes Book, 27 May 1977, pg. 8734
Credit
Purchased 1977
Location
Not on display
Accession number
281.1977
Copyright
© Agarabi people, under the endorsement of PIMA's 'Code of Ethics'