Accession No
2009.26
Description
Screen-print by Tiabe titled ‘Helicopter’, September 1968,
Place
Oceania; Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Highlands
Period
Source
Strathern, Marilyn (Prof.) [collector and donor]r]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
2009.26
Cultural Affliation
Material
paper; pigment
Local Term
Measurements
745mm x 1000mm
Events
Context (CMS Context)
Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, William Wyseman Professor of Anthropology, 1993- 2008, Cambridge University, who conducted fieldwork in the PNG Highlands and in Port Moresby from the 1960s onward.
Previously displayed in the donor’s rooms at Girton College.
(Bio) Tiabe was from the Southern Highlands, but met Georgina Bier when she ran art workshops at the Laloki Mental Home, Port Moresby, 1967-8. This produced PNG's first "outsider" artists, including Tiabe, Kupialdo, Sukoro, Hape and Mathias, whose artwporks were shown at the university library in 1968. Some of his works such as ‘Accident’ distrust of Western technology.
Event Date 21/4/2009
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
Print, red on white paper, signed and titled ‘Helicopter’ (September 1968). Print shows a red figure with blue eyes in a red helicopter, with a red and blue shape below, ?part of the helicopter.
Event Date 21/4/2009
Author: maa
Loan (Exhibition)
Royal Academy of Arts, 14/09/2018 to 09/12/2018, Oceania
Event Date 14/9/2018
Author: Rachel Hand
Context (Display)
Exhibited: Mathius Kuage: Artist of Papua New Guinea, 17 March- 21 April 2009.
Event Date 24/5/2019
Author: rachel hand
FM:265806
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