Funerary Figure (Kulap)
Southern New Ireland, 1866-1932
Scroll
Funerary Figure (Kulap)
Southern New Ireland, 1866-1932
Physical Qualities
Chalk, pigment, 15 x 5 1/2 x 4 5/16 in. (38.1 x 14 x 11 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number
1955.251.16
Unidentified Artist
Funerary Figure (Kulap)
Late 19th–early 20th century
Namatanai District, Latangai Island,
New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Chalk, pigment
Gift of Alan Wurtzbuger, BMA 1955.251.16
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1955; Alan Wurtzburger
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Douglas F. Fraser & Paul S. Wingret, "The Wurtzburger Collection of Oceanic Art". Baltimore Museum of Art.1956 pg 22, cat no 16.
Küchler, Susanne. Malanggan: art, memory and sacrifice. Berg, 2002.
Gifford, Philip Collins, Jr., The Iconology of the Uli Figure of Central New Ireland, PhD dissertation, Columbia University, University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, MI, 1974.
Lincoln, Louise, Assemblage of Spirits; Idea and Image in New Ireland, George Braziller, NY, in association with the Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1987.
Brake, Brian and D. R. Simmons, Art of the Pacific, New York: H. N. Abrams, in association with Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand, 1980, c1979..
Gifford, Philip Collins, Jr., The Iconology of the Uli Figure of Central New Ireland, PhD dissertation, Columbia University, University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, MI, 1974.
Lincoln, Louise, Assemblage of Spirits; Idea and Image in New Ireland, George Braziller, NY, in association with the Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1987.
Brake, Brian and D. R. Simmons, Art of the Pacific, New York: H. N. Abrams, in association with Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand, 1980, c1979..
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