Erub Island, Torres Strait Islands, Papua New Guinea
Tortoise-shell (Sea Turtle - Chelonidae spp.), fibre, human hair
19th Century
Height: 39.5 cm
Provenance
Jules Dumont d'Urville (1840), voyage of the Astrolabe and Zélée
(by repute)
Dominique Rumeau (after 1840, before 1875)
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, 1875
Stephen Chauvet, Paris, 1931
Josef Mueller, Paris and Solothurn (before 1939)
Jean-Paul Barbier, Geneva (by descent from the former)
Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva, 1977, [Acc. No. 4242]
Selected Exhibition History
1998 Geneva, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Arts des Mers du Sud dans les Collections du musée Barbier-Mueller. Insulinde, Mélanésie, Polynésie, Micronesié
2006 Paris, The Mona Bismarck Foundation, Shadows of New Guinea : Art of the Great Island of Oceania from the Barbier-Mueller Collections
Selected Publication History
Douglas Newton, Ed., Arts des Mers du Sud dans les Collections du musée Barbier-Mueller. Insulinde, Mélanésie, Polynésie, Micronesié, Paris, 1998, p 233, fig 1
Norman C. Abramovic, 'Art of the Torres Strait in the Barbier-Mueller Collection', in: Barbier-Mueller Museum, Arts & Cultures, No. 3, 2002, Geneva, p 233, fig 15
Philippe Peltier and Floriane Morin, Eds., Shadows of New Guinea, Geneva, 2006, p 226, cat 117