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Cockatoo, Navapwi, 19th–early 20th century
Wood, pigment
38.1 x 12.7 x 5.1 cm (15.5 x 5 x 2.75 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.78

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "A pair of carved birds, apwi, was usually suspended from the plaited part of the facade lintels of spirit houses, korambo, just below both ends of the lintel. Upon the inauguration of a new spirit house these figures, after having been washed and repainted, were usually transferred from the old to the new house (Koch, 1968: 47, text re fig. 32). This one was probably also used in the initiation ritual nantagwa, one of the graded initial rituals of the Wosera. It probably represents the black cockatoo (mange, mangge). The term navapwi came from Noel Mc Guigan (personal communication)." (Catalog #307, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 133.)

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Navapwi Cockatoo Francisco San Museums Arts Fine Gift Promised Friede John Marcia Art Jolika subgroup Wosera people Abelam Oceania Province Sepik East Guinea New Sculpture pigment Wood 0709200406050154 A360993 L05.1.78 AOA