Title
Khomongu (serving bowl)
mid 20th century
collected 1973
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Bowl
- Place where the work was made
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Toanumbu village
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East Sepik Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Boiken people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1973 - Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- earthenware, coiled and chip-carved, natural pigment
- Dimensions
- 21.5 cm height; 35.5 cm diameter
- Credit
- Gift of Mrs Margaret Tuckson 1973
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 57.1973
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Samungi
Works in the collection
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About
The delicately-carved scroll patterns on this 'khomongu' most likely represents coiled fern fronds, as described by researcher and author Helen Dennett.
[entry from Exhibition Guide for 'Melanesian art: redux', 2018, cat no 10]
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1974 -
Sospen Graun: traditional pottery of Papua New Guinea, Djamu Gallery, Sydney, 04 Mar 2000–28 Aug 2000
Melanesian art: redux, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Nov 2018–17 Feb 2019
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Margaret Tuckson and Patricia May, The traditional pottery of Papua New Guinea, Kensington, 1982, 269 (illus.). figure no. 9.103
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 46. cat.no. 101
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