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Bark painting
Kwoma
20th century
Object Place: Papua New Guinea
Dimensions
Legacy: 60 x 14 in.
Credit Line
Bequest of William E. Teel
Accession Number2014.120
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Africa and Oceania
ClassificationsPaintings
Provenance1970, acquired from a ceremonial house in a Kwoma village, Upper Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, by Douglas Newton (b. 1920 - d. 2001), New York [see note]. January 27, 1972, sold by Staempfli Gallery, New York, to William and Bertha Teel, Marblehead, MA; 2014, bequest of William Teel to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 26, 2014)
NOTE: Acquired with 159 other panels. Newton was a scholar and curator at the Museum of Primitive Art, New York, which closed and became incorporated into the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
NOTE: Acquired with 159 other panels. Newton was a scholar and curator at the Museum of Primitive Art, New York, which closed and became incorporated into the Metropolitan Museum of Art.