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Details
- Other Titles
- Clay gargoyle
Ridge ornament
Hearth support - Place where the work was made
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Dimiri Village
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Yuat River
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East Sepik Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Yaul people
- Date
- mid 20th century
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- earthenware, modelled and incised
- Dimensions
- 27.0 cm height; 20.2 cm width; 14.5 cm depth
- Credit
- Purchased 1965
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- IA2.1965
- Copyright
- © Yaul people, under the endorsement of the Pacific Islands Museums Association's (PIMA) Code of Ethics
- Artist information
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Yaul people
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Pacific art: Private collection of Stephen Kellner, Hungry Horse Gallery, Paddington, 21 Apr 1965 -
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1965, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 09 Mar 1966–03 Apr 1966
Melanesian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Apr 1966–22 May 1966
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1974 -
Melanesian art: redux, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Nov 2018–17 Feb 2019
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Daniel Thomas AM (Editor), 1965 Acquisitions, Sydney, 1965, 79-80. cat.no. 143
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Margaret Tuckson and Patricia May, The traditional pottery of Papua New Guinea, 'East and West Sepik Provinces', pg. 208-325, Kensington, 1982. General reference to Yaul pottery. See Fig. 9.63 for similar hearth stand with the addition of a bird.
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Tony Tuckson, Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly, 'Some Sepik River art from the collection', pg. 666-679, Sydney, Apr 1972, 667, 670, 674 (illus.). plate no. 4
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Tony Tuckson, Melanesian art, Sydney, 1966, 7, between pg. 12-13 (illus.). cat.no. 30
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