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 (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 proposed

AGNSW Trustees Minutes Book, 27 May 1977, pg. 8734

Location

Not on display

Accession number

281.1977

Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 50. cat.no. H41