Unknown Indigenous Pacific Islands or First Nations Australian artist
Figure

Figure

Public Domain

Artist
CultureYaul peoples
Titles
  • Figure
Date1851–1900
PlaceDimiri Village, Papua New Guinea
MediumWood
Dimensions87 1/4 in. height (221.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number62.44
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Pacific Islands and Australia
Object Type
ProvenanceDimiri Village, Papua New Guinea; Musée Ethnographique, Basel, Switzerland, by 1962; purchased by MFAH, 1962.

Exhibition History"The Art of Oceania," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 10–October 14, 1979.

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