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Maway (Shooting star)

Yatiikapa
Maway (Shooting star)
 1988

Medium
earth and natural pigments on sago palm petiole

Measurements
106.4 × 68.7 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through the NGV Foundation with the assistance of The Thomas William Lasham Fund, Founder Benefactor, 2001
© Courtesy of the copyright holder

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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Bangwis village, Washkuk Hills, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea

Inscription
inscribed in red paint u.c.l.: YATI
inscribed (inverted) in red paint l.c.: YATI

Accession Number
2001.423

Department
Pacific Art

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Physical description
Iconography: not totemic. The painting depicts a shooting star. Kwoma people believe that a shooting star is the soul of a prominent man travelling to its final resting place immediately after his death.

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