Breechcloth
Late 1800s–early 1900s
Culture
Melanesian
Locale
Sepik River
Melanesia
Country
Papua New Guinea
Object
breechcloth, bark cloth, tapa
Medium
Bark cloth and paint
Accession Number
1949.4318
Credit Line
Exchange with Statens Etnografiska Museum
Sepik River artist, Breechcloth, Late 1800s–early 1900s. Bark and paint; 80 x 15 in. Denver Art Museum: Exchange with Statens Etnografiska Museum, 1949.4318
Dimensions
height: 80 in, 203.2000 cm; width: 15 in, 38.1000 cm
Department
Native Arts
Collection
Arts of Oceania
Known Provenance
Collected by Birger Mörner (b. 1867, d. 1930), about 1913-14, Papua New Guinea; Heinrich Rudolph Wahlen, (b. 1873, d. 1970); Statens Etnografiska Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, 1915; Exchanged to the Denver Art Museum, 1949.
