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Title

Cooking pot

collected 1966

Artists

Unknown Artist

No image

  • Details

    Other Title
    Pot
    Place where the work was made
    Kainantu District → Eastern Highlands Province → Papua New Guinea
    Cultural origin
    possibly Rawa people
    Date
    collected 1966
    Media category
    Ceramic
    Materials used
    earthenware, blackened, pig's tusk, woven natural fibres, string, fabric
    Dimensions
    25.0 cm pot rim (diam.); 35.5 cm height :

    0 - Whole, 25 cm, top rim

    0 - Whole, 35.5 cm (14"), from top of base to rim

    Credit
    Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    746.1979
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  • Bibliography

    Referenced in 1 publication

    • Margaret Tuckson and Patricia May, The traditional pottery of Papua New Guinea, Kensington, 1982. See pages 191-194 for similarly shaped vessels from the Rawa people, collected at Henganofi in Eastern Highlands Province.