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Comb, Mindja, 19th–early 20th century
Cassowary bone
27 x 5 x 2 cm (10 5/8 x 1 15/16 x 13/16 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.105

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: "Collected by Bruce Lawes in Nimbogu village in 1971. Bruce Lawes Collection, San Francisco." (Catalog #321, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 135.) EXHIBITIONS: 1991 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, "New Guinea Bone Carvings." 1977 - The Western Museums Association, Oakland, Calif., 1977, "The Bruce Lawes Collection." PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "The artist has carved the face of ngwalndu (see pl. 288 and 289) on the comb. Except for a broken tine, the comb is complete, with the fretted edge intentional and the holes at the edge for attaching ornaments. A related example was recently reported by Micahel Hamson from the Arapesh area. He was informed that the comb was tapped on a young man's head to empower him before battle. There is another in an Australian collection." (Catalog #321, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 135.) 1998 - Meyer, 1998, fig. 645. 1976 - Lawes, 1976, pl. 10.

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