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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Rapigu
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Goroka District
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Eastern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Benabena people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1972 - Media categories
- Jewellery , Weaving
- Materials used
- 25 large cowrie shells (Ovula ovum), green snail shell (Turbo marmoratus), plaited plant-fibre cord, rattan
- Dimensions
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overall 140 cm length; 6.0 cm depth; green snail shell 13.5 cm length; cowrie shells 7.0 to 10.0 cm length
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Dimensions variable, 138 cm, outside cord circumference (approx.)
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 707.1979
- Copyright
- © Benabena people, under the endorsement of the Pacific Islands Museums Association's (PIMA) Code of Ethics
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
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 1 publication
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 110 (colour illus.), 162. cat.no. 56
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