Title
peng koem (ceremonial wig)
mid 20th century
collected 1963
Artist
No image
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Details
- Other Titles
- Ceremonial hat
Judge's wig
Peng koklnga - Place where the work was made
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Western Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Melpa people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1963 - Media categories
- Ceremonial object , Botanical material
- Materials used
- bark on cane frame, human hair, tree rosin, plant fibre, green beetles, yellow, red and blue trade store colours, white natural pigment, copper wire, bird feathers
- Dimensions
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39.0 x 40.0 x 53.0 cm (approx.)
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0 - Whole, 39 cm (15 3/8"), approx.
0 - Whole, 40 cm (15 3/4"), approx.
0 - Whole, 53 cm (20 7/8"), approx.
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 553.1979
- Artist information
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Melpa people
Works in the collection
- Share
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Places
Where the work was made
Western Highlands Province
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Andrew Strathern and Marilyn Strathern, Self-decoration in Mount Hagen, London, 1971. For similar examples of 'peng koem' from the Wahgi people, see Chapter 4, pg. 84-92, and colour plate no. 31.
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