Title
Man's back ornament
collected 1965
Artists
Unknown Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Tari
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Tari-Pori District
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Hela Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Huli people
- Date
- collected 1965
- Media category
- Mixed media
- Materials used
- Blyth's Hornbill upper beak (Rhyticeros plicatus), 5 shards gold-lipped oyster shell (Pinctada Maxima), 4 pig tusks, 2-ply plant fibre string, red pigment
- Dimensions
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29.5 x 20.0 x 4.5 cm dimensions variable
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0 - Whole, 17.5 cm (6 7/8"), hornbill beak length
0 - Whole, 4.5 cm (1 3/4"), hornbill beak width
0 - Whole, 4.5 cm (1 3/4"), hornbill beak depth
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 249.1977
- Copyright
- Share
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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, 49. cat.no. H11
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