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Green banana peeler, 19th–early 20th century
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The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.283

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "The Azera, who inhabit the middle and upper Markham valley, are one of the few New Guinea people who cook the starchy plaintain banana as a staple food. Significantly, they "have (at least) 36 words for banana" (May, 1984: 73). A "ceremonial dish, made by men and called ganandzup,...is made from a combination of varieties of ripe and unripe bananas cooked in coconut milk" (ibid., 39). Banana peelers made of bone are used to peel the skins of cooking bananas as these skins are as sticky as those of unripe bananas (Borkent, 1978: 2, 7, A3). Like most Azera banana peelers, this example is characterized by a flying fox head carved at the top end, comparable to the heads on the handles of certain types of Azera cooking pots (see May and Tuckson, 1982: 141, fig. 6.14)." (Catalog #391, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 149.) 1995 - Meyer, 1995, fig. 168.

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