Abelam
Headdress Fragment
Abelam, 1800-1899
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Abelam
Headdress Fragment
Abelam, 1800-1899
Physical Qualities
Wood, plant fiber, pigment, H. 28 1/16 in. (71.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number
1955.251.35
Unidentified Abelam Artist
Headdress Fragment
19th century
Prince Alexander Mountains,
East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
Wood, plant fiber, pigment
Gift of Alan Wurtzburger, BMA 1955.251.35
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 24. cat no. 35.
Coupaye, Ludovic. Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships: Yams, Art and Technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua NewGuinea. New York: Berghahn Books, 2013.
Losche, Diane. "What Do Abelam Images Want from Us?: Plato's Cave and Kwatbi's Belly." The Australian journal of anthropology 8, no. 2 (1997): 35-49.
Losche, Diane. "The Sepik gaze: Iconographic interpretation of Abelam form." Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice 38 (1995): 47-60.
Forge, Anthony. “Style and Meaning in Sepik Art,” in Primitive Art and Society, ed. Anthony Forge, 169-192. London: Oxford Univ. Press.1973.
Forge, Anthony. “Art and Environment in the Sepik,” in Art and Aesthetics in Primitive Societies , ed. C. Jopling, 290-314. NY: E. P. Dutton.1971.
Losche, Diane. "What Do Abelam Images Want from Us?: Plato's Cave and Kwatbi's Belly." The Australian journal of anthropology 8, no. 2 (1997): 35-49.
Losche, Diane. "The Sepik gaze: Iconographic interpretation of Abelam form." Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice 38 (1995): 47-60.
Forge, Anthony. “Style and Meaning in Sepik Art,” in Primitive Art and Society, ed. Anthony Forge, 169-192. London: Oxford Univ. Press.1973.
Forge, Anthony. “Art and Environment in the Sepik,” in Art and Aesthetics in Primitive Societies , ed. C. Jopling, 290-314. NY: E. P. Dutton.1971.
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