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Details
- Other Title
- Shield and sling
- Place where the work was made
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Gumine District
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Simbu (Chimbu) Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Golin people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1966 - Media category
- Arms & armour
- Materials used
- wood, punctated designs, black and orange ochre pigments, pale blue mineral pigment (vivianite), clay, plant fibres, rattan sling, remains of arrow
- Dimensions
- 161.3 x 61.0 x 2.0 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 260.1978
- Copyright
- © Golin people, under the endorsement of the Pacific Islands Museums Association's (PIMA) Code of Ethics
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Loan exhibition of Native art from the private collection previously not displayed of Mr S G Moriarty, Gallery Stephen Kellner, Australia, 15 Sep 1966–06 Oct 1966
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1974 -
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 4 publications
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Chris Boylan and Greta North, The world of tribal arts, 'Highlands Art of New Guinea', pg. 73-83, San Francisco, Winter 1997, 79 (colour illus.). fig.no. 18
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Lynn Chua, Microchemical Journal, 'FTIR and Raman microscopy of organic binders and extraneous organic materials on painted ceremonial objects from the Highlands of Papua New Guinea', pg. 246-256, Amsterdam, 2017, 248, 251, 252.
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Kerry Head and Lucy Willet, Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, 'Approaches to the conservation of art from the New Guinea highlands', pg. 148-151, Sydney, 2014, 89 (colour illus.), 150, 160. cat.no. 89
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 52. cat.no. H99
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