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An Awan for SAM

10/12/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

by Jim Elmslie Caption: The Awan with Sophie Parker, of ArtLab, Adelaide, South Australia. Image credit: Alice Beale. This large body-mask, called a tumbuan in tok-pisin, comes from the  Iatmul people of the Middle Sepik River, PNG, and played an important role in traditional ritual life. Initially it was thought to pertain to the naven ceremony of the Iatmul people […]

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Filed Under: Artefacts, Members Only, V24 Issue 4

The Social Life of Aboriginal Breastplates: Encoded Objects of Colonisation

11/06/2018 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

By Angel Bottaro The preservation of Aboriginal breastplates, with a degree of empathetic imagination, evoke powerful stories of colonisation. The physical weight of the objects around one’s neck and the […]

Filed Under: Artefacts, Objects, V23 Issue 2

Slit Gongs of the Sepik and Madang Provinces

01/09/2016 By Barry Craig

By Barry Craig, South Australian Museum I have prepared a paper from a dataset of a large number of slit gongs of the Sepik and lower Ramu region, documented during […]

Filed Under: Artefacts, V21 Issue 4, Volume 21

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