Male figure (bioma or agiba)
Unidentified Urama Island maker
Wapo-Era-Urama Area
Papuan Gulf
Papua New Guinea
not dated
Wood, natural pigments (red, white, and brown)
Overall: 20 1/2 in. (52.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection
990.54.27864
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Exhibition History
Ancestors, Spirits, and Families: Expressing Relationships in Melanesian Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 11-June 30, 1996.
Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-September 17, 2006.
Faces/Voices: The Harry A. Franklin Family Collection of Oceanic Art at Dartmouth College, The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-March 15, 1992.
Publication History
Robert L. Welsch, Virginia-Lee Webb, and Sebastian Haraha, Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2006, ill. p. 22.
Provenance
Acquired by Harry A. Franklin (1903-1983), Los Angeles, California, in the 1950s; bequeathed to the Harry A. Franklin Family Collection, Los Angeles, California, 1983; lent to present collection, 1990; given to present collection, 1991.
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