drawing
- Museum number
- Oc2006,Drg.404
- Description
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Drawing; group of six men performing a dance in a ceremony, wearing plant fibre skirts, and each wearing a different type of mask (one appears to be fish-shaped, another a human face), and holding a dance ornament, on Murray Island, Torres Strait. 1892
Watercolour and graphite
- Production date
- 1892
- Dimensions
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Height: 33.10 centimetres (drawing)
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Height: 36 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 48.40 centimetres (drawing)
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Width: 56 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Related images: Oc2006-Drg-404 through to Oc2006-Drg-407.
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For an account of Roberts's trip to the Torres Strait, see his articles titled 'Going North', published in The Argus, 12/11/1891, 19/11/1892, 3/12/1892 and 12/12/1892. See also the Brisbane Courier 5/11/1892 and Sydney Morning Herald 1/11/1892.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2015-2016 27 Nov-28 Mar, Canberra, National Museum of Australia, Encounters
- Acquisition date
- 1922
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc2006,Drg.404
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 12 (series number)
