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Title

Cooking pot

collected 1968

Artists

Unknown Artist

No image

  • Details

    Other Title
    Pot
    Place where the work was made
    Unantu → Kainantu → Eastern Highlands Province → Papua New Guinea
    Cultural origin
    Agarabi (Agarabe) people
    Date
    collected 1968
    Media category
    Ceramic
    Materials used
    earthenware, blackened, red earth pigment, incised decoration
    Dimensions
    34.0 cm height :

    0 - Whole, 34 cm (13 3/8")

    0 - Whole, 20 cm, diameter at neck of pot

    Credit
    Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    748.1979
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  • Bibliography

    Referenced in 2 publications

    • Margaret Tuckson and Patricia May, The traditional pottery of Papua New Guinea, 'Madang Province', pg. 162-205, Kensington, 1982. For general information about Agarabi pottery, see pg. 158-160.

    • Virginia Watson, Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 'Pottery in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea', pg. 121-28, United States of America, Summer 1955. General article about pottery production in the Agarabi-speaking and Kamano-speaking communities of the Eastern Highlands.