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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
- Dimensions
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29.8 cm bowl rim (diam.); 13.5 cm bowl height
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0 - Whole, 29.8 cm, diameter of rim at widest point
0 - Whole, 13.5 cm (5 5/16"), height of bowl from base to rim
- Credit
- Gift of Margaret Olley 1984
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 327.1984
- Copyright
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About
The design on this clay eating bowl represents earth worms.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Margaret's Gifts, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 04 Jan 2020–22 Mar 2020
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Paul Dennett, Mak bliong Sepik: a selection of designs and paintings from the Sepik River, Wewak, 1975, 113. A similar design to the one incised on this eating bowl is illustrated on page 113 and described as representing earth-worms. The designs on the food bowls from pages 106 to 114 come from the Kamangaui-Koiwat area.
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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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