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1994.15.1266

Drawing in coloured pencil of Urar figure for 'wapi' ceremony.

1994.15.1266

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Collection type
Object
Description
Drawing in coloured pencil of Urar figure for 'wapi' ceremony.
Person
Maker Kakari
Field collector Beatrice Mary Blackwood
PRM source Beatrice Mary Blackwood
Date / Period
Date made: 1930
Date collected
By 1975
Acquisition information
Found unentered: 1994
Materials and processes
Material Paper Plant, Material Pencil, Material Pigment, Process Drawn
Dimensions
Width: max 255 mm, Length: max 290 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1994.15.1266
Research and responses

On 13 February 2015 examined by Dr Nicolas Garnier of the University of Papua New Guinea who confirmed this is the drawing published as figure 7 on page 215 of Beatrice Blackwood, 1935, Both Sides of Buka Passage, Oxford: Clarendon Press [for Dr Garnier's own notes see related document file 1994.15.] [ZM 13/02/2015]

See Fig.7 of 'Both Sides of the Buka Passage': 'Urar figure at wapi ceremony, being carried on the shoulders of a man. The figure has an upi on its head and a bull-roarer in each hand. Drawn by a young man.'

Associated publications
A copy of this drawing is published at figure 7 on page 215 in 'Both Sides of the Buka Passage' by Beatrice Blackwood. The figure is 'Urar figure at wapi ceremony, being carried on the shoulders of a man. The figure has an upi on its head and a bull-roarer in each hand. Drawn by a young man.' [MJD 23/01/2015]

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