Title
Mask
collected 1972
Artists
Unknown Artist
No image
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Yauna
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Kainantu District
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Eastern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Agarabi people
- Date
- collected 1972
- Media categories
- Ceremonial object , Botanical material , Animal material
- Materials used
- bark, cane, feathers, pit-pit seeds, white, brown, violet pigment
- Dimensions
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30.5 x 40.6 cm
:
0 - Whole, 30.5 cm (12")
0 - Whole, 40.6 cm (16")
- 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 proposedAGNSW 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'
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 50. cat.no. H41
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