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Details
- Other Title
- Mask
- Place where the work was made
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Kamindibit Village
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Middle Sepik River
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East Sepik Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Iatmul people
- Dates
- 1960s
collected 1965 - Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- wood, cowrie shells (Cypraeidae), natural pigments
- Dimensions
- 52.5 x 20.3 x 14.0 cm
- Credit
- Purchased 1965
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 407.1994
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Iatmul people
Works in the collection
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About
According to Gottfried Tawa of Kaminimbit village, this mask represents a 'gawi' (eagle). The mask would have been fixed to a large, woven 'tumbuan' costume that completely covered a man's body during a performance or ceremony.
[entry from Exhibition Guide for 'Melanesian art: redux', 2018, cat no 13]
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1974 -
Melanesian art: redux, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Nov 2018–17 Feb 2019
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Renée Free, Geoffrey Legge and Daniel Thomas AM, Tony Tuckson, Sydney, 2006, 17 (illus.). Photograph showing 1973 Aboriginal and Melanesian art display at the AGNSW, with works collected by Tony Tuckson on his 1965 trip to Papua New Guinea.
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Peter Laverty (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly (vol. 13, no. 4), Sydney, Jul 1972, 697 (illus.). "The primitive art area is temporarily situated on the first floor. Exhibits are from the Sepik River, New Guinea, along with a grave-symbol figure from New Hebrides, in the left foreground". The 'Mask' is seen on the wall, together with other works collected by Tuckson in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 45. cat.no. 49; 'Mask. Kamindibit village (Iatmul). Wood, painted 53.5 h Collected 1965 (41)'
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