Painting
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 2017
label: Collection Date
content: 16 Jan 2011
name: label: Collector
content: Elizabeth Duggal
label: Collector
content: Alain Taghipour
label: Donor Name
content: Elizabeth Duggal
notes: label: Notes
content: Painting on canvas fabric, featuring a helicopter and three birds, all in bright colors (acrylic paint?), outlined in black. The helicopter is piloted by a person wearing a (feathered?) headdress. The helicopter is divided into 7 sections, one with the pilot, one at the front with a Papua New Guinea flag (black with white stars and red with a yellow bird of paradise), and the other five are colorful faces. The faces have dots along their noses, and two have nose ornaments. Three multicolored birds and 4 red and yellow flowers surround the helicopter. To the left is a palm tree with red palm fruit.The background is sky blue. The painting is surrounded on all 4 sides by a 4-5 cm border of unpainted canvas. The inscription, written vertically in marker on the bottom left corner of the painting says "SIMON G. / P.N.G. [Papua New Guinea] / 2010". Written horizontally on the bottom left corner: "DISPELA HELIKOPTA I KARIM" and beneath that, "OL MANMERI BLONG LNG PROJECT." On the back, in the lower left corner, printed vertically in marker, is "K300.00" indicating a price of 300 kina. Printed upside down in pen in the same corner is "H[E]LICOPTER." The canvas is fraying on the top and bottom edges, but not on the sides (selvages).
label: Notes
content: Donor notes: Cost, "150 kina." "Simeon Gende, a Chimbu man, painted this painting. He is part of the unofficial Chimbu school of painters."
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: 2058322
label: USNM Number
content: E435192-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 86.5 cm
label: Width
content: 126 cm
label: Length - Painting (No Border)
content: 77.5 cm
label: Width - Painting (No Border)
content: 115 cm