Title
Female figure
mid 20th century
collected 1964
Artists
Unknown Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Okapa District
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Eastern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Fore people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1964 - Media categories
- Mixed media , Sculpture
- Materials used
- wood, quartz stone, iron nails, bivalve mollusc shells, mammalian teeth, plant fibre string, cowrie shells (Cypraeidae), looped plant-fibre string, bast fibre, sedge grass
- Dimensions
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153.0 x 46.0 x 19.0 cm
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a - figure, 153 x 46 x 19 cm, height x width x depth approx.
b - necklace, 120 cm, length of band approx
c - headdress, 28 cm, diam. approx.
d - grass skirt, 36.5 cm, length
d - grass skirt, 60 cm, length of waistband with fringe attached
d - grass skirt, 61 cm, length of left band
d - grass skirt, 8 cm, length of right looped band
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 579.1979.a-e
- Copyright
- © Fore people, under the endorsement of the Pacific Islands Museums Association's (PIMA) Code of Ethics
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Places
Where the work was made
Okapa District
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Melanesian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Apr 1966–22 May 1966
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, Melanesian art, Sydney, 1966. cat.no. 243
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 144 (colour illus.), 163. cat.no. 86
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