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Details
- Other Title
- Male decoy figure
- Place where the work was made
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Gimi village
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Okapa District
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Eastern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- probably Fore people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1964 - Media categories
- Mixed media , Sculpture
- Materials used
- wood, iron nails, feathers, yellow orchid stem fibre (Dendrobium), glass beads, red synthetic pigment, black pigment, nassa shells (Nassarius), pig tusks, coix seeds (Coix lacryma-jobi), black seeds, plant fibre string, barkcloth, split rattan, marsupial fur, looped plant-fibre string, pale red and brown plant dyes, bast fibre, sedge grass
- Dimensions
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150.0 x 31.0 x 17.0 cm
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a - figure, 150 cm, height
b - barkcloth head adornment, 30 cm, length approx.
c - shell headdress, 31 cm, length
d - pig tusk nose ornament, 12.8 cm, length longest tusk
e - coix seed waist decoration, 18 cm, diameter approx.
f - plant fibre string headdress, 17 cm, length approx.
g - feathered headdress, 31 cm, diameter
h - plaited string waist decoration, 17 cm, diameter
i - grass lap lap, 34 x 25 cm
j - grass lap lap with double ply string, 25 x 23 cm
k - black bead waist decoration, 20 cm, diameter approx.
l - bilum, 31 cm, length, without handle
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 301.1977.a-l
- Copyright
- © Under the endorsement of the Pacific Islands Museums Association's (PIMA) Code of Ethics
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
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. cat.no. H61
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 145 (colour illus.), 163. cat.no. 87
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