Title
Tobacco pipe
mid 20th century
collected 1969
Artists
Unknown Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Lake Kopiago
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Southern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Duna people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1969 - Media category
- Botanical material
- Materials used
- bamboo, poker work
- Dimensions
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26.5 cm length; 3.9 to 4.1 cm diameter
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0 - Whole, 26.5 cm (10 7/16")
0 - Whole, 3.9 cm, aft (open) end
0 - Whole, 4.1 cm, fore (closed) end
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 805.1979.14
- Copyright
- © Duna people, under the endorsement of the Pacific Islands Museums Association's (PIMA) Code of Ethics
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Places
Where the work was made
Lake Kopiago
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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 3 publications
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AC Haddon, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 'Smoking and Tobacco Pipes in New Guinea', pg. 1-278, London, 06 Jun 1946, 123. See page 123 for similar shaped and decorated pipes from the Tari valley and Lake Kutubu.
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Paul Sillitoe, Made in Niugini: Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, 'Tobacco pipes', pg. 206-212, London, 1988, 206, 218-219. See pages 206, 218-219 for similar designs and images of the production of bamboo tobacco pipes.
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 163. cat.no. 79; titled 'Duna man's apparel (selected items)' Note: this item not reproduced
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