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Details
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- Male figure
Yaul mythological figure - 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
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1965 - Media categories
- Ceramic , Sculpture
- Materials used
- earthenware, modelled and incised
- Dimensions
- 50.5 x 26.0 x 21.0 cm
- Credit
- Purchased 1965
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 397.1994
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Yaul people
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1974 -
Sospen Graun: traditional pottery of Papua New Guinea, Djamu Gallery, Sydney, 04 Mar 2000–28 Aug 2000
Melanesian art: redux, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Nov 2018–17 Feb 2019
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Renée Free, Geoffrey Legge and Daniel Thomas AM, Tony Tuckson, Sydney, 2006, 17 (illus.). Photograph showing 1973 Aboriginal and Melanesian art display at the AGNSW, with works collected by Tony Tuckson on his 1965 trip to Papua New Guinea.
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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, 246 (illus.). figure no. 9.66
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 44. cat.no. 32
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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, 675 (illus.). plate no. 5
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Natalie Wilson, Look, 'Focus on Oceanic Art: a new display and a conference', pg. 32-33, Sydney, Oct 2009, 32 (colour illus.).
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