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Details
- Other Titles
- Canoe prow board
Massim lagim (Canoe splashboard) - Place where the work was made
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Trobriand Islands
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Milne Bay Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Massim people
- Date
- collected 1966
- Media categories
- Woodwork , Sculpture
- Materials used
- wood, carved in relief, white pigment
- Dimensions
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66.4 x 86.3 cm (irreg.)
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0 - Whole, 66.4 cm (26 1/8")
0 - Whole, 88.3 cm (34 3/4"), width at top of board
0 - Whole, 27.3 cm (10 3/4"), width at bottom of board
- Credit
- Purchased 1966
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- IA1.1966
- Copyright
- Share
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Trobriand Islands art, Dominion Galleries, Sydney, 19 Apr 1966 -
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1966, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Apr 1967–07 May 1967
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1974 -
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1966 Acquisitions, Sydney, 1966, 79. cat.no. 161
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 41. cat.no. 6 (Melanesian)
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly, Sydney, Apr 1967, (illus.).
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