Unknown Indigenous Pacific Islands or First Nations Australian artist
Taki (Crocodile Spirit Figure)

Taki (Crocodile Spirit Figure)

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Taki (Crocodile Spirit Figure)
Artist
CultureKarawari people
Titles
  • Taki (Crocodile Spirit Figure)
Date1900–1933
PlaceMansamei Village, Papua New Guinea
MediumWood, paint
Dimensions15 1/2 × 14 × 275 in. (39.4 × 35.6 × 698.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Houston Endowment, Inc.
Object number61.46
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
200 Brown Gallery
On view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Pacific Islands and Australia
Object Type
ProvenanceFather Heinemans, Catholic Mission, Wewak, Papua New Guinea, before 1959; collected by Alfred Bühler (1900–1981) for the Museum für Völkerkunde und Schweizerisches Museum für Volkskunde (now the Museum der Kulturen), Basel, Switzerland, 1959–1961; purchased by MFAH, 1961.
Exhibition History"The Art of the Pacific Islands," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1, 1979–February 7, 1980.

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