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Unidentified Kerewa maker
Goaribari Island
Papuan Gulf
Papua New Guinea

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1912

Wood, shredded sago leaf, natural pigments (red, white, and black)

Overall: 44 7/8 × 10 13/16 in. (114 × 27.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor William Patten, Class of 1908H

14.13.4285

Geography

Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania

Place Made: Papuan Gulf, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania

Period

20th century

Object Name

Personal Symbol

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Course History

ANTH 50.34, Peoples of Oceania, Brinker Ferguson, Fall 2021

ANTH 50.34, Peoples of Oceania, Brinker Ferguson, Fall 2021

Anthropology 50.34, Native American and Indigenous Studies 30.28, Peoples of Oceania, Brinker Ferguson, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-September 17, 2006; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, October 24-September 2, 2007.

Critical Faculties: Teaching with the Hood's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 15-March 13, 2005.

Religious Symbols in the Art of New Guinea, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47 & 53, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 17-May 16, 1999.

Publication History

Robert L. Welsch, Virginia-Lee Webb, and Sebastian Haraha, Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2006, ill. p. vii (detail) and 42.

Provenance

Collected by Professor William Patten on Goaribari Island, Gulf of Papua, March 17-23, 1912 (see diary in Archives); given to present collection, 1914.

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