Title
Mask for initiation ceremonies
mid 20th century
collected 1966
Artists
Unknown Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Grassman
Mask, fighting stick and rattle to be worn together - Place where the work was made
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Kainantu District
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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
- Sculpture , Ceremonial object
- Materials used
- cassowary feathers (Casuarius), rattan frame, 2 pig tusks, wood, pangi seeds (Pangium edule), rattan, plant fibres, nassa shells (Nassarius), marsupial fur, wood, red and black pigments, green, blue and red parrot feathers
- Dimensions
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183.0 x 79.0 x 75.0 cm figure; stick 67.2 cm length; rattle 151.5 cm length
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a - cassowary feather mask, 183 x 79 x 75 cm
b - rattle, 151.5 cm, length
c - club, 67.2 cm, length
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1974
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 31.1974.a-c
- 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 3 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
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1974 -
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 6 publications
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Jude Ainsworth, The Australian women's weekly, 'First stop Port Moresby', pg. 14-16, Sydney, 27 Nov 1968, 14 (colour illus.). 'Holidays in Australia' colour supplement; photograph shows mask being danced at the 1966 Goroka Show
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Samantha Hutchison, The Australian, 'Sky's the limit after art gallery revamp', pg. 13, Surry Hills, 05 Oct 2015, 13 (colour illus.). Arts Section
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 51. cat.no. H49
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Natalie Wilson, Look, 'A myriad of artforms: rare and beautiful objects from the highlands of New Guinea', pg. 24-28, Sydney, May 2014, 24, 25 (colour illus., detail).
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 68 (illus.), 69 (colour illus.), 159. cat.no. 11
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Natalie Wilson, Hunting the collectors: Pacific collections in Australian museums, art galleries and archives, '(Works of) paradise and yet: Stanley Gordon Moriarty, Tony Tuckson and the collection of Oceanic Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales', pg. 221-241, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2007, 232.
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