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- Jennie Kappenman
- Acrylic painting on canvas; framed for exhibition purposes. Man wearing feather headdress and boy, depicted on a deep blue background; man is holding a mobile phone/cellphone up to his ear. Signed "P.Jakupa 2021" in lower left corner.
- Painting of a man holding a cellphone and a stick, with a young boy at his side. The artist applies paint in a color block type style using generally two to three tints of blue, green, red, yellow and brown. The backgound is evenly dark blue with a lighter tint of blue outlining all the figures including the ground. The man is depicted wearing a feathered headdress, a choker at his neck, armbands on both arms with leaves inserted into the band, and a colored loincloth tied at the waist attached to a wide waistband. The young boy is depicted with short hair, wearing a colored waist band with leaves inserted at the back. The canvas was purchased unstretched. It is now stretched and stapled to a wooden stretcher, which is inserted inside a wooden exhibit frame. There is no glazing on the face of the frame.
- The artist Pax Jakupa is quoted on p. 79 of Cadora, Marion (2012), Cosmopolitanism: The New Generation of Contemporary Artists in Papua New Guinea [Master's thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa]. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/33087 "Most of my work on canvas, the figures I do, the background paintings, is always in green or blue. That's it. I think, the environment I live in is green. The environment is full of plants, leaves, and trees, and when you look further back in the mountains you see that the mountains are still blue ... this is the environment we are in. That's the sort of thing I try to capture."
- Record Last Modified
- 15 Feb 2023
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Accession Number
- 2090185
- USNM Number
- E437463-0
- Object Type
- Painting
- Width
- 91 cm
- Length
- 113 cm
- Place
- Goroka, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
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- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
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- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_16792209
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3b7847058-3d72-4ebb-875d-f5ff26cd2632
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