Title
Khomongu (serving bowl)
mid 20th century
collected 1973
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Bowl
- Place where the work was made
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Toanumbu village
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East Sepik Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Boiken people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1973 - Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- earthenware, coiled and chip-carved, natural pigment
- Dimensions
- 21.5 cm height; 35.5 cm diam.
- Credit
- Gift of Mrs Margaret Tuckson 1973
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 57.1973
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Samungi
Works in the collection
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About
The delicately-carved scroll patterns on this 'khomongu' most likely represents coiled fern fronds, as described by researcher and author Helen Dennett.
[entry from Exhibition Guide for 'Melanesian art: redux', 2018, cat no 10]
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1974 -
Sospen Graun: traditional pottery of Papua New Guinea, Djamu Gallery, Sydney, 04 Mar 2000–28 Aug 2000
Melanesian art: redux, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Nov 2018–17 Feb 2019
Open Studio (brick vase clay cup jug), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Jul 2023–07 Jan 2024
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Margaret Tuckson and Patricia May, The traditional pottery of Papua New Guinea, Kensington, 1982, 269 (illus.). figure no. 9.103
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 46. cat.no. 101
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