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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Aiyura Valley
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Kainantu District
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Eastern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Tairora people
- Date
- collected 1966
- Media category
- Arms & armour
- Materials used
- wood, bark, white pigment, barkcloth cord handle, cane, 2-ply plant fibre thread, embedded arrow tip
- Dimensions
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122.5 x 50.3 x 1.8 cm
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0 - Whole, 122.5 cm (48 1/4"), approx.
0 - Whole, 50.3 cm (19 13/16"), approx.
0 - Whole, 1.8 cm (11/16"), approx.
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 261.1978
- 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 5 publications
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Chris Boylan and Greta North, The world of tribal arts, 'Highlands Art of New Guinea', pg. 73-83, San Francisco, Winter 1997, 78 (colour illus.). fig.no. 15
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John Friede, New Guinea art: masterpieces form the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede: Volume 1, San Francisco, 2005. cat.no. 578 shows similar shield from the Lamari River area: Tairora or Awa people; colour plate pg. 609
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John Friede, New Guinea art: masterpieces form the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede: Volume 2, San Francisco, 2005. cat.no. 578 shows similar shield from the Lamari River area: Tairora or Awa people; entry pg. 187
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Gallery Stephen Kellner, Native art: from the private collection previously not displayed of Mr S G Moriarty, Waverley, Sep 1966. cat.no. 21
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 52. cat.no. H100
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