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Bark cloth beater, 19th century
Basalt/serpentine
33 x 7 x 4.4 cm (13 x 2 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.268

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "This kind of beater was used to pound the inner bark of several ficus species until it became twice its original width. The resulting material was used to make masks, shields, and other bark-cloth objects. Bodrogi 1961, published a drawing of a similar object, fig. 193, collected around 1900 by Lajos Biró on the Huon Peninsula in Busega village among the Bukwa people. See also Tischner 1981, fig. 118. The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass., has a similar object that is listed from the Anga (Kukukuku), who live in the hills of southern Morobe Province." (Catalog #16, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 86.)

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