Urama Spirit Board – Gope
Papuan Gulf, Papua New Guinea
Height 37 Inches (94CM)
Provenance & Description
Urama Spirit Board - Gope
Photographed by Frank Hurley in 1921 or 1923 during one of his visits to Urama Island.
Collected by Thomas Schultze-Westrum 1960s
Kinomere Village
John and Marcia Friede
Tomkins Collection
Exhibited:
Coaxing the Spirits – Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf, Metropolitan Museum of Art 2006
Publications:
Robert Welsch, Virginia_Lee Webb, Sebastian Hartha
Coaxing the Spirits – Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf, Hood Museum of Art 2006: 66 (figure108)
Virginia-Lee Webb, Embodied Spirits – Gope Boards from the Papuan Gulf. Milan, 5 Continents Editions 2015: 292 (plate 114)
Douglas Newton, Art Styles of the Papuan Gulf, The Museum of Primitive Art 1961, pg. 79, no. 191
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