Mandak
Chief’s Funerary Figure (Uli)
New Ireland, 1800
Physical Qualities
Wood, pigment, parinarium nut , opercula of the turbo snail, 42 9/16 x 11 x 10 1/4 in. (108.1 x 28 x 26 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number
1955.251.15
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1955; Alan Wurtzburger; J.J. Klejman Gallery, New York,??-1954/55; Museum für Volkerkunde, Berlin, 1907-??; Perhaps collected on SMS "Planet" expedition to Papua New Guinea, 1906/7
"The Alan Wurtzburger Collection of Oceanic Art", January 7th-March 4th 1956, Baltimore Museum of Art
Douglas F. Fraser & Paul S. Wingret, "The Wurtzburger Collection of Oceanic Art". Baltimore Museum of Art. 1956 pg 23 ills 15.
'Time Magazine,' Feb. 27, 1956, p. 83, illus. in color.
K.R. Greenfield, 'The Museum: Its First Half Century,' 'Annual I,' BMA 1966, repro. p. 88.
Gifford, Philip Collins, 1974, 'The Iconology of the Uli Figure of Central New Ireland.' Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI, illus. #101.
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.
Jean-Phillippe Beaulieu, Uli: Powerful Ancestors from the Pacific (Belgium: Primedia Sprl, 2021), 176.
Kevin Tervala, "Oceanic Art at The Baltimore Museum of Art," Tribal Arts Magazine 104 (Summer 2022): 106-113. Illustrated on pg. 110.
On View: Pacific Islands
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