Title
Belt
collected 1963
Artists
Unknown Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Anglimp-South Waghi District
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Jiwaka Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Wahgi people
- Date
- collected 1963
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- 34 lengths of bamboo, each drilled at top and bottom with two holes and threaded onto green machine-made cotton cord, pokerwork design applied to outside surface of each individual bamboo slat
- Dimensions
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12.0 x 24.0 x 24.0 cm overall
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0 - Whole, 73 cm (28 3/4"), approx. circumference inside belt
0 - Whole, 24 cm, approx. diameter of belt
0 - Whole, 12 cm (4 3/4"), width of belt at widest point
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 292.1978
- Copyright
- Share
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
The 'Moriarty' exhibition, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly, 01 Nov 1964–31 Dec 1964
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, 38 (illus.), 54. cat.no. H130
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