Boar model

Model of a boar from Papua New Guinea. Wooden frame is covered by thick string painted red, yellow and black twisted together. The boar is decorated with cowrie shells and cassowary feathers.

Tourist model of boars and pigs produced from the 1960s onwards. Invovlement of local community in tourist trade demonstrating agency and creativity.

Pigs have an important significance in Papua New Guinea. They are bred for meat, and are also important status symbols.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
HC.2022.35
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
420mm x 160mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
woods
CATEGORY
Education Handling Collection: Anthropology
LOCATION
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