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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Chuave District
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Simbu (Chimbu) Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Chuave people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected circa 1964 - Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- gourd (Lagenaria siceraria), gum, nine bovine teeth, plant fibre string, brown, grey and orange natural pigments
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 21.0 x 11.0 cm approx.
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 286.1977
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Chuave people
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Melanesian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Apr 1966–22 May 1966
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1974 -
Melanesian art: redux, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Nov 2018–17 Feb 2019
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 50. cat.no. H46; incorrectly given Moriarty number as M1176; correct number is M1183; incorrectly described as containing human teeth
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Tony Tuckson, Melanesian art, Sydney, 1966, 18. cat.no. 247; 'Mask. Gourd, round, teeth, nose attached on cane base. Painted orange, red, purple and grey, 10¼h, Chuave, Eastern Highlands. Coll:S.G. Moriarty, M1183'
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