Title
Cooking pot
collected 1966
Artists
Unknown Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Pot
- Place where the work was made
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Henganofi
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Eastern Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Kamano (Kafe) or Rawa people
- Date
- collected 1966
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- earthenware, blackened
- Dimensions
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21.6 cm height
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0 - Whole, 21.6 cm (8 1/2")
0 - Whole, 11.4 cm, diameter of rim
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 747.1979
- Share
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About
According to anthropologist Virginia Watson, 'in addition to its manufacture by the Agarabi (Agarabe) in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea, pottery is also made in at least one Kamano (Kafe) community, Lihona. Lihona is located in the Bismark Ranges overlooking the Ramu River valley ...'.
The Kamano at Lihona, as reported by Acting Assistant District Officer, William Brown, at Kainantu in 1955, were 'more closely connected with the Kaieuran people of the Ramu, than with the Kamano'. It is therefore also possible that this pot was traded up from the Ramu River area.
Lihona pots differ from those made by the Agarabe in that the walls are thinner than the Agarabe jars, and were found to be dark grey to black in colour.
[See Virginia Watson, 'Pottery in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea', Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, vol 11, no 2, Summer 1955, pp 121-128]
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Places
Where the work was made
Henganofi
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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, 'Madang Province', pg. 162-205, Kensington, 1982. For an image of a similar Rawa cooking pot collected at Henganofi, see Figure 8.42, pg. 192.
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Virginia Watson, Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 'Pottery in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea', pg. 121-128, United States of America, Summer 1955. General article about pottery production in the Agarabi-speaking and Kamano-speaking communities of the Eastern Highlands.
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