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Details
- Other Titles
- Ceremonial hat
Peng
Judge's wig - Place where the work was made
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Mount Hagen
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Western Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Melpa people
- Date
- collected 1963
- Media category
- Ceremonial object
- Materials used
- bark on cane frame, human hair, tree rosin, plant fibre, green beetles, yellow, red and blue trade store colours, white natural pigment
- Dimensions
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37.0 x 46.0 x 45.0 cm (approx.)
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0 - Whole, 37 cm (14 9/16"), approx.
0 - Whole, 46 cm (18 1/8"), approx.
0 - Whole, 45 cm (17 11/16"), approx.
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 554.1979
- Artist information
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Melpa people
Works in the collection
- Share
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Places
Where the work was made
Mount Hagen
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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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