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Details
- Place where the work was made
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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 1964 - Media category
- Mixed media
- Materials used
- gourd (Lagenaria siceraria), coix seeds (Coix lacryma-jobi), plant fibre string, white pigment
- Dimensions
- 31.0 x 20.0 x 14.5 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 830.1979
- 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 3 exhibitions
The 'Moriarty' exhibition, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly, 01 Nov 1964–31 Dec 1964
Loan exhibition of Native art from the private collection previously not displayed of Mr S G Moriarty, Gallery Stephen Kellner, Australia, 15 Sep 1966–06 Oct 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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Chris Boylan and Greta North, The world of tribal arts, 'Highlands Art of New Guinea', pg. 73-83, San Francisco, Winter 1997, 77 (colour illus.). fig.no. 10
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 77 (colour illus.), 160. cat.no. 23
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