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Details
- Other Title
- Food bowl
- Place where the work was made
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Middle Sepik River
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East Sepik Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Sawos people
- Date
- collected 1960s
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- earthenware, chip-carved, traces of red earth pigment
- Dimensions
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30.0 cm bowl rim (diam.); 15.0 cm bowl height
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0 - Whole, 30 cm, diameter of rim at widest point
0 - Whole, 15 cm (5 7/8"), height of bowl from base to rim
- Credit
- Gift of Margaret Olley 1984
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 326.1984
- Copyright
- Share
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Margaret Tuckson and Patricia May, The traditional pottery of Papua New Guinea, Kensington, 1982. see pages 224-231 for similar vessels and description of coiling and decorating techniques
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