Artist
Iatmul
CultureIatmul people
Titles
- Ancestral Suspension Hook
Date1870–1900
PlacePapua New Guinea
MediumWood, cowrie shells, and pigment
Dimensions18 1/4 × 7 × 4 in. (46.4 × 17.8 × 10.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Wallace S. Wilson in honor of his wife, and William N. Mathis in honor of his mother Isabel B. Wilson at "One Great Night in November, 2011"
Object number2011.1028
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
Lower Brown Corridor
On view
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Object Type
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in ink on back of lower body: 159
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Unknown Indigenous Pacific Islands or First Nations Australian artist
1860–1900
Wood and paint
65.37
Unknown Indigenous Pacific Islands or First Nations Australian artist
1900–1973
Wood, pigment, rafia, and shells
73.181
Unknown Indigenous Pacific Islands or First Nations Australian artist
c. 1945–1990
Woven cane and grass with pigment
2010.1498
Unknown Indigenous Pacific Islands or First Nations Australian artist
1900–1950
Wood and pigment
2011.1029
Unknown Indigenous Pacific Islands or First Nations Australian artist
1884–1895
Wood, paint, opercula shells, lime plaster, plant fiber, bark, bark cloth, rattan, and cord
90.256
Unknown Indigenous Pacific Islands or First Nations Australian artist
1915–1920
Wood (alstonia, villosa), paint, opercula shells (Turbo petholatus)
89.260
Unknown Indigenous Pacific Islands or First Nations Australian artist
1935–1962
Wood, shells, hair, tusks, clay, plant fiber, and paint
62.33
Unknown Indigenous Pacific Islands or First Nations Australian artist
1935–1962
Wood, plant fiber, and paint
62.41
Unknown Indigenous Pacific Islands or First Nations Australian artist
1900–1940
Tridacna shell, black pigment, and plant fiber
96.945
Unknown Indigenous Pacific Islands or First Nations Australian artist
1908–1912
Giant clam shell, turtle shell, stone and shell beads, and plant
86.412
Unknown Indigenous Pacific Islands or First Nations Australian artist
1880–1890
Giant clam shell, turtle shell, stone, animal teeth, glass, and plant fiber
88.1
Unknown Indigenous Pacific Islands or First Nations Australian artist
1950–1960
Plant fiber, paint, cassowary feathers, human hair, and shell
89.258