Accession No
2005.277
Description
Section of cut textile. Yellow fabric with blue and mustard yellow printed design.
Place
Oceania; Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; New Guinea; Southeast Coast; Central Province; Port Moresby; Hara Hara Prints
Period
Late 20th century
Source
Strathern, Marilyn (Dame, Prof.) [collector and donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
2005.277
Cultural Affliation
Material
Cloth
Local Term
Measurements
784mm x 1350mm
Events
Context (Analysis)
Printed cloth, Design 5: dark blue and orange on yellow. [From notes by Prof. Marilyn Strathern, 18/8/2003]
Event Date 18/8/2003
Author: rachel hand
Context (Acquisition Details)
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.
Illustrated in Ulli Beier 1974.
[From notes by Prof. Marilyn Strathern, 18/8/2003]
Event Date 18/8/2003
Author: rachel hand
Description (Physical description)
Section of cut textile. Yellow fabric with blue and mustard yellow printed design.
Event Date 3/8/2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (References)
The 1974 reference may be to Sun and moon in Papua New Guinea folklore by Ulli Beier and Prithvindra Chakravarti, Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1974.
Event Date 25/9/2018
Author: rachel hand
Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2024.5990 | Freezing
Event Date 2/8/2024
Author: Anne Doering
FM:280771
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