Title
Mattock for digging barets (ditches)
collected 1966
Artists
Unknown Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Barrett spade
Matock
Mattock for digging "barets" - Place where the work was made
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Mount Elimbari
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Simbu (Chimbu) Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Chuave language group
- Date
- collected 1966
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- wood, cane
- Dimensions
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blade: 17.8 cm width x 64.8 cm length
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0 - Whole, 17.8 cm (7")
0 - Whole, 64.8 cm (25 1/2")
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 244.1978
- Copyright
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About
A 'baret kaukau' is a sweet potato planted in 2-4 m beds on a rectangular grid of ditches, a method characteristic of Western Highlands to the east of Mt Hagen town and much of Chimbu.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 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 -
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 52. cat.no. H83; titled 'Mattock, for digging "barets"'
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