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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Porgera
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Enga Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Ipili people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1968 - Media category
- Ceremonial object
- Materials used
- human hair, Superb Bird of Paradise breast shield (Lophorina superba), feathers, cuscus fur, cut and incised plant stems, split bamboo, dried flowers, paper, red seedpods, rattan, wood, plaited plant fibres
- Dimensions
- 70.0 x 13.0 x 19.0 cm (excluding feathers)
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 286.1978
- Copyright
- © Ipili people, under the endorsement of the Pacific Islands Museums Association's (PIMA) Code of Ethics
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
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 3 publications
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 53. cat.no. H124
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 97 (colour illus.), 161. cat.no. 40
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Natalie Wilson, Hunting the collectors: Pacific collections in Australian museums, art galleries and archives, '(Works of) paradise and yet: Stanley Gordon Moriarty, Tony Tuckson and the collection of Oceanic Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales', pg. 221-241, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2007, 234 (illus.). figure 3: Moriarty Collection card M1791
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