Title
Ocarina (morimuge)
collected 1968
Artists
Unknown Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Whistle
- Place where the work was made
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Kundiawa
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Simbu (Chimbu) Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Sinasina people
- Date
- collected 1968
- Media categories
- Musical instrument , Ceramic
- Materials used
- moulded unfired clay, grey pigment
- Dimensions
- 7.6 x 5.3 x 3.7 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 268.1978.2
- Copyright
- Share
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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E.W.P. Chinnery, Man, 'Mountain tribes of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea from Mt Chapman to Mt Hagen', pg. 113-121, London, Aug 1934. Clay whistles of the 'China Siva' tribe are reproduced and described on pg. 119-120.
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Margaret Tuckson and Patricia May, The traditional pottery of Papua New Guinea, Kensington, 1982, 156-157, 161. General description of Sinasina clay ocarinas, with two examples reproduced.
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 52. cat.no. H107
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