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Details
- Other Title
- Torres Strait Islander turtle shell mask
- Place where the work was made
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Torres Strait Islands
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Australia
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- turtle shell, shells, pearl shell, fibre string, infilled lime decoration
- Dimensions
- 46.0 x 18.0 cm mask; 66.0 x 37.0 x 7.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1996
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 559.1996
- Artist information
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Unknown
Works in the collection
- Share
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Places
Where the work was made
Torres Strait Islands
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997
Dari a Krar: Headdresses and Masks of the Torres Strait, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Canberra, 01 Apr 2006–31 Mar 2008
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Ken Watson, One sun one moon: Aboriginal art in Australia, 'Poetic justice: An overview of Indigenous art', pg. 17-27, Sydney, 2007, 18 (colour illus.).
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