Ancestral Board (Gope)

Unidentified Urama Island maker
Urama Island
Papuan Gulf
Papua New Guinea

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collected 2001

Wood, natural pigments (red, white, and black)

Overall: 30 1/2 × 7 1/2 × 13/16 in. (77.5 × 19 × 2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Derrick R. Cartwright

2001.36.34020

Geography

Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania

Period

21st 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

Environmental Studies 26.01, Soil Ecological Systems, Bala Chaudary, Spring 2023

Anthropology 3.01, Introduction to Anthropology, Charis Ford Morrison Boke, Summer 2023

Environmental Studies 26.01, Soil Ecological Systems, Veer Chaudhary, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

Changing Traditions in Pacific Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 38, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 7-November 10, 2002.

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.

Pigment of Imagination, Class of 1967 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, April 15-August 5, 2022.

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. 20.

Provenance

Collected by Robert Welsch, Papua New Guinea, summer 2001; given to an anonymous collector, 2001; given to present collection, 2001.

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