Title
Man's girdle (worn over buttocks)
mid 20th century
collected 1969
Artists
Unknown Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Lake Kopiago
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Southern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Duna people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1969 - Media categories
- Botanical material , Animal material
- Materials used
- plyed plant fibre string, vine, cane
- Dimensions
- 26.0 x 23.2 x 25.5 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 294.1978
- Copyright
- © Duna people, under the endorsement of the Pacific Islands Museums Association's (PIMA) Code of Ethics
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Places
Where the work was made
Lake Kopiago
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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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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 54. cat.no. H132; 'Part of an eighteen piece dress collection'
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 137 (colour illus.), 163. cat.no. 79; NOTE: only selected items from entire costume shown in exhibition
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