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Title

Pot

collected 1966

Artists

Unknown Artist

No image

  • Details

    Place where the work was made
    Okapa District → Eastern Highlands Province → Papua New Guinea
    Date
    collected 1966
    Media category
    Ceramic
    Materials used
    earthenware, pale red and white natural pigments
    Dimensions
    21.0 cm bowl rim (diam.); 16.0 cm bowl height :

    0 - Whole, 21 cm, diemeter of rim at widest point

    0 - Whole, 16 cm (6 5/16"), height of bowl from base to rim

    Credit
    Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    750.1979
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  • About

    This pot was collected by Stan Moriarty at Okapa, in the Eastern Highlands, in 1966.

    It is restricted in form with a direct rim, ovoid belly and rounded base. The vessel is blackened inside and out and decorated with a pale red natural pigment band around inflection point below rim and two white natural pigment bands running from lip to lip crossing base of vessel.

    There is a crack running from rim to belly with a larger loss on belly of vessel, and small chips along the rim of vessel.

  • Places

    Where the work was made

    Okapa District