Female Figure (bioma or agiba)
Unidentified Urama Island maker
Wapo-Era-Urama Area
Papuan Gulf
Papua New Guinea
not dated
Wood, natural pigments (red, white, and brown)
Overall: 25 in. (63.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection
990.54.27209
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Course History
Anthropology 50.34, Native American and Indigenous Studies 30.28, Peoples of Oceania, Brinker Ferguson, Spring 2024
Anthropology 50.34, Native American Indigenous Studies 30.28, Peoples of Oceania, Brinker Ferguson, Spring 2025
Anthropology 50.34, Native American Indigenous Studies 30.28, Peoples of Oceania, Brinker Ferguson, Spring 2025
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.
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. 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.
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