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Details
- Other Titles
- Wallet (used to carry Kina shell)
Bark pearl shell wrapper - Place where the work was made
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Tambul
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Tambul-Nebilyer District
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Western Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Kakoli people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1969 - Media category
- Ceremonial object
- Materials used
- folded length of pandanus palm bark, plant fibre, red and white pigments
- Dimensions
- 24.5 x 21.7 x 2.0 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 318.1978
- Copyright
- © Kakoli people, 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 3 publications
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Paul Sillitoe, Made in Niugini: Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, London, 1988, 388-391. Detailed description of the making of a Wola bark pearlshell wrapper.
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 54. cat.no. H157
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 44, 67 (colour illus.), 159. cat.no. 10
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