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Details
- Other Title
- Female figure
- Place where the work was made
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Goroka District
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Eastern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- possibly Alekano people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1961 - Media categories
- Ceremonial object , Mixed media
- Materials used
- gourd (Lagenaria siceraria), human hair, machine-wove cotton fabric, plant fibre string, coix seeds (Coix lacryma-jobi), white clay, pale red and red ochre pigments, gold-lipped oyster shell fragment (Pinctada maxima), dried plant fibre
- Dimensions
- 68.0 x 34.0 x 22.0 cm
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 294.1977
- Copyright
- © Under the endorsement of the Pacific Islands Museums Association's (PIMA) Code of Ethics
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1974 -
Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 May 2014–10 Aug 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 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, 82 (colour illus.). fig.no. 24
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 139 (colour illus.), 163. cat.no. 81
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