Painting
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 2017
label: Collection Date
content: 16 Jan 2011
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Joshua A. Bell
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Acrylic painting on canvas cloth. Scene is a truck with a weight basket, and people weighing a load of oil palm fruit. The truck is on a road with trees in the background. It is white with yellow trim, and marked on the side: “N.B.P.O.L.” (New Britain Palm Oil Limited). A man in a green shirt is sitting in the truck's driver's seat. Another man in green, with an orange vest, is weighing a large bundle of the red fruit. On the right, a woman holding a slip of paper ("KG 10254 Docket") is sitting on the side of the road in front of the truck, with small child. On the bottom left, a man is also sitting/reclining near the truck. The man and woman are wearing what appears to be traditional dress -- loincloths, armbands, legbands, and necklaces. The scene is painted in bright colors, with the figures and objects outlined in black. It is bordered on all 4 sides by a band of yellow with black line-drawn triangles. An inscription on the lower right side indicates the approximate date and the artist “2010 PNG Artist John Baundo.” On the back of the painting, in the upper left corner, the numbers “7,6, 5, 18” are marked sideways in blue pen. It appears that someone was adding these numbers because of the way that they were written. In the lower left corner is written horizontally in black marker “K150” which could indicate a price of 150 kina. The lower right corner of the reverse shows vertical writing in black marker saying “K350” which, contrary to the other marking, could mean a price of 350 kina. All edges of the painting are slightly frayed.
label: Notes
content: Donor notes: Cost, 150 kina. "John Baundo is Chimbu from Kerauake. He works as a security guard for a block of office buildings in Goroka Town near the Bird of Paradise Hotel. He began painting in 1999 and styles himself as a child of Kauage (the famous and recently Chimbu painter, who until his death was based in Port Moresby). When asked about his relation to Kauage – he commented on how Kauage raised him. John has never seen oil palm plantation on the coast, and composed this painting from what he imagines plantations to be like (and presumably with the help of television and print advertisements). The painting is his commentary on the “big something” that is happening on the coast."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Mar 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Goroka, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chimbu
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2058627
label: USNM Number
content: E435187-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 71.5 cm
label: Width
content: 107.5 cm
label: Length - Painting
content: 63.5 cm
label: Width - Painting
content: 100 cm