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Spirit board, Gope or Kaiaimunu, C-14 dating: 1650–1890 (95% probability)
Wood, pigment
92 x 40 x 2 cm (36 1/4 x 15 3/4 x 13/16 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.24

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: "Collected by Thomas Schultze-Westrum in 1966." (Catalog #477, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 165.) PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "The villagers stated that the design on this gope was carved with a crocodile tooth. The gope itself was carved by means of stone adzes and wooden bats with sharp edges. Other tools used to carve such relief patterns are shark teeth, mussel shells, stone slivers, cassowary bones, and boars' tusks (Schultze-Westrum, 1972, text re fig. 47). I have not seen any gope of comparable design." (Catalog #477, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 165.)

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