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Varhit 2017

Artwork Varhit this artwork made of Varhit mask and ururaga (aerial): barkcloth with natural pigments, synthetic polymer paint, wood, bark twine, cane, wood, feathers, created in 2017-01-01
Accession No.
2018.053a-b
Date Created
2017
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Pacific Art
Dimensions A
Mask: 90 x 38 x 42cm; aerial height: 156cm
Media Category
Fibre
Medium
Varhit mask and ururaga (aerial): barkcloth with natural pigments, synthetic polymer paint, wood, bark twine, cane, wood, feathers
Place Created
Wunga village, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Credit Line
Gift of the Indigenous Uramat Indentity of Gaulim and Wunga villages through Gideon Kakabin and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2018

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© Ngari Isaac

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Exhibitions featuring this object

A work on copper depicting silhouettes of people emerging from bamboo shoots. / Lee Paje / The Philippines b.1980 / The stories that weren’t told (detail) 2019 / Oil on copper mounted on wood / Purchased 2021 with funds from Terry and Mary Peabody and Mary-Jeanne Hutchinson through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA / © Lee Paje

‘The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial’

Dec 2021 - Apr 2022

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