Context (CMS Context)
Professor Dame Marilyn Stathern, William Wyseman Professor of Anthropology, 1993- 2008, Cambridge University, conducted fieldwork in the New Guinea Highlands and in Port Moresby from the 1960s onward.
Number 19 from a run of 50, made in September 1968.
[From notes by Prof. Marilyn Strathern, 18/8/2003]
(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 artworks were shown at the university library in 1968. Some of his works such as ‘Accident’ distrust of Western technology.

An adhesive sticker from the print's framers 'Warwick of Cambridge' is secured to the rear of the board.

Event Date 5/10/2015
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Screen-print by Tiabe, titled 'Accident', edition 19/50a, 1968. Inscribed in pencil, 'Accident 19/50a Sep. 68/ TIABE'. Printed in colour,(blue, orange/red and yellow) from three screens. Condition: poor. Print is adhered to a baseboard which has warped from damp. Adhesive tape still remains attache to much of the rear of the board.
Event Date 5/10/2015
Author: maa