Place where the work was made

Yauna → Kainantu District → Eastern Highlands Province → 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

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

Location

Not on display

Accession number

281.1977