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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Kainantu
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Eastern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Tairora people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1966 - Media categories
- Mixed media , Sculpture
- Materials used
- wood, cassowary feathers (Casuarius), parrot feathers, pig tusks, marsupial fur, nassa shells (Nassarius), sedge grass, yellow orchid stem fibre (Dendrobium), rattan, bamboo, natural and synthetic pigments (red, white and black), coix seeds (Coix lacryma-jobi), glass mirror shards, iron nails, cotton fabric, plastic
- Dimensions
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164.0 x 57.0 x 27.0 cm
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a - figure, 154 cm, height approx.
b - bilum, 98 x 43 cm, bag overall, tapa decoration 77.0cm length
c - black bead neck decoration
d - plaited string neck piece, 17 cm, width
e - sedge grass skirt, 28 x 40 cm
f - coix seed neck decoration, 20 cm
g - barkcloth head decoration, 66 cm, length overall
h - bamboo ear decoration - left, 60 cm
i - bamboo ear decoration - right, 83 cm
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 303.1977.a-i
- Copyright
- © Tairora people, under the endorsement of the Pacific Islands Museums Association's (PIMA) Code of Ethics
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Loan exhibition of Native art from the private collection previously not displayed of Mr S G Moriarty, Gallery Stephen Kellner, Australia, 15 Sep 1966–06 Oct 1966
Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 May 2014–10 Aug 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973. cat.no. H63
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 147 (colour illus.), 148 (illus.), 149, 163. cat.no. 89
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