Female Figure (bioma or agiba)
Unidentified Urama Island maker, Wapo-Era-Urama Area, Papuan Gulf, Papua New Guinea
20th century
Wood, natural pigments (red, white, and brown)
Overall: 25 in. (63.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection
990.54.27209
Geography/Culture
Oceania, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea
Period
20th century
Object Name
Figure
Classification
Oceania
Not on view
Exhibition History
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.
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.
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. 22.
Provenance
Acquired by Harry A. Franklin (1903-1983), Los Angeles, California, in the 1950s; to the Harry A. Franklin Family Collection, Los Angeles, California, 1983; given to present collection, 1990.
Old Number
O0166
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