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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
Dates
mid 20th century
collected 1966
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
183.0 x 79.0 x 75.0 cm figure; stick 67.2 cm length; rattle 151.5 cm length :
a - cassowary feather mask; 183 x 79 x 75 cm; length
b - rattle; 151.5 cm; length
c - club; 67.2 cm
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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Mask for initiation ceremonies
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Exhibition history
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
Referenced in 6 publications
Bibliography
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
Samantha Hutchison, The Australian, 'Sky's the limit after art gallery revamp', pg. 13, Surry Hills, 05 Oct 2015, 13 (colour illus.). Arts Section
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 51. cat.no. H49
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).
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.
Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 68 (illus.), 69 (colour illus.), 159. cat.no. 11