Accession No
2009.27
Description
Black on white screen-print by Tiabe titled 'Kaulum' (1975). Picture shows a humanoid figure with raised arms being bitten by two snakes.
Place
Oceania; Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Highlands
Period
Source
Strathern, Marilyn (Prof.) [collector and donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
2009.27
Cultural Affliation
Material
paper; pigment
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (CMS Context)
(Bio) Female donor: Professor Dame Marilyn Stathern, William Wyseman Professor of Anthropology, 1993- 2008, Cambridge University, who conducted fieldwork in the PNG Highlands and in Port Moresby from the 1960s onward. 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)
Screen-print, black on white, titled 'Kaulum' (1975). Picture shows a humanoid figure with raised arms being bitten by two snakes. Condition good: creases around edge of paper and figure.
Event Date 21/4/2009
Author: maa
Context (Display)
Exhibited: Mathius Kuage: Artist of Papua New Guinea, 17 March- 21 April 2009.
Event Date 24/5/2019
Author: rachel hand
FM:265807
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