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


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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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