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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Pikosa
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Upper Asaro
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Daulo District
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Eastern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Dano people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1969 - Media category
- Arms & armour
- Materials used
- black palm bow, plaited split-rattan binding, bamboo, carved wood, yellow orchid stem fibre (Dendrobium), red ochre pigment, pink and blue synthetic pigments, plant fibre string
- Dimensions
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bow 165.0 cm length, 3.5 cm diameter; string 143.5 cm length; arrows 116.8 to 132.2 cm length, 1.0 to 1.3 cm diameter
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a - bow - black palm, 165 cm, length
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 816.1979.a-h
- Copyright
- © Dano 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, 86 (colour illus.), 160. cat.no. 29
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