Portrait

Museum number:
17-619
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3220
Description:
Portrait of a Melanesian man; entitled "Kemi"; charcoal on paper.
Donor:
Caroline Mytinger
Collection place:
Suam, Lower Fly River, Papua New Guinea
Verbatim coll. place:
Melanesia, New Guinea, Lower Fly River, Suami.
Culture or time period:
Melanesian
Maker or artist:
Caroline Mytinger
Collector:
Caroline Mytinger
Collection date:
1933–1937
Materials:
Charcoal (material) and Paper (fiber product)
Person depicted:
Kemi
Place depicted:
Melanesia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Portraits and Portraits (figure works)
Function:
4.2 Public Buildings and Furnishings
Production date:
1933–1937
Accession date:
March 26, 1976
Department:
Drawings and paintings
Dimensions:
height 25.2 centimeters and width 25.7 centimeters
Title:
Kemi (Title Subject)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Portrait, accession number 17-619, described as Portrait of a Melanesian man; entitled "Kemi"; charcoal on paper.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Portrait, accession number 17-619, described as Portrait of a Melanesian man; entitled "Kemi"; charcoal on paper.

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