Title
Male ancestor figure
collected 1968
Artists
Unknown Artist
No image
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Details
- Other Title
- Figure
- Place where the work was made
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Asaro
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Daulo District
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Eastern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Date
- collected 1968
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- carved wood, glass shards, bamboo, feathers, teeth, tapa cloth, cowrie shell, natural earth pigments, charcoal
- Dimensions
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137.2 x 32.0 x 22.0 cm approx.
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a - figure, 135 cm (53 1/8"), height approx. without headdress
b - grass skirt, 51 x 50 cm, height x width approx.
c - bamboo necklace, 54 x 4.3 cm, length x width approx.
d - tapa back decoration, 40 x 17 cm, each section approx.
e - bamboo head decoration, 65 cm, height overall each side
f - ear decoration, 20 cm, height
g - headdress, 52 cm, height overall
h - Dilly bag, 52 x 15 cm, length x width
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 302.1977.a-h
- Share
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Places
Where the work was made
Asaro
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1974 -
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 51. cat.no. H62
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