Saibai Island, Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia
Wood, human hair, fibre, mother-of-pearl, red ochre
19th Century
Height: 69 cm
Provenance
Collected before 1900
Melbourne Aquarium
Frederick Cooper Smith, Mount Dandenong, Melbourne
Selected Exhibition History
1998, Geneva, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Arts des Mers du Sud dans les Collections du musée Barbier-Mueller. Insulinde, Mélanésie, Polynésie, Micronesié
2006, Paris, The Mona Bismarck Foundation, Shadows of New Guinea : Art of the Great Island of Oceania from the Barbier-Mueller Collections
2009, Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Bildgewaltig: Afrika, Ozeanien und die Moderne
Permanent Collection: Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva,
[Accession No. 4241]
Selected Publication History
Douglas Newton, ed., Arts des Mers du Sud dans les Collections du musée Barbier-Mueller. Insulinde, Mélanésie, Polynésie, Micronesié, Paris, 1998, p 236, fig 5
Philippe Peltier and Floriane Morin, eds., Shadows of New Guinea, Geneva, 2006, p. 228, cat. 118 Oliver Wick and Antje Denner, Bildgewaltig: Afrika, Ozeanien und die Moderne, Basel, 2009, XIV, fig 1