Title
Pibis (cone shell disc necklace)
mid 20th century
collected 1969
Artists
Unknown Artist
No image
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Nipa
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Nipa-Kutubu District
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Southern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Wola people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1969 - Media categories
- Animal material , Botanical material , Jewellery
- Materials used
- 3 cone shells (Conus), plant fibre cord, woven rattan, traces of grey/black pigment
- Dimensions
- overall 34.0 cm length; shell 4.5 cm to 4.8 cm diameter
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 719.1979
- Copyright
- © Wola people, under the endorsement of the Pacific Islands Museums Association's (PIMA) Code of Ethics
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 May 2014–10 Aug 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 117 (colour illus.), 162. cat.no. 62
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