Spirit board, hohao
TC 66
Provenance: Lewis/Wara Gallery, Seattle, 2003 Alex Philips, Melbourne Collected by A.B.Lewis, Chicago, 1912
This gope was photographed in Orokolo village by A.B. Lewis in 1912. The board is seen on the right side of Lewis’ photo. Lewis’ photographs, archives and object he collected are in the Field Museum Chicago.
Dimensions: H. 127 cm
Culture: Papua New Guinea, Papuan Gulf
Publishing History: Robert Welsch. An American Anthropologist in Melanesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1998: 475 (Fig.7.26).
Robert Welsch, Virginia-Lee Webb, Sebastian Haraha. Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf. New Hampshire, Hood Museum of Art, 2006: 58 (Fig. 92).
Virginia-Lee Webb. Embodied Spirits. Gope Boards from the Papuan Gulf. Milan. 5 Continents Editions 2015: 98 (Plate 21).
Exhibition History: Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, April 1-September 17, 2006. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York October 24, 2006 – December 2, 2007.
