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Mima bodii fruit

Manal Kapay
Mima bodii fruit
 1988

Medium
earth and natural pigments on sago palm petiole

Measurements
121.6 × 69.3 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through the NGV Foundation with the assistance of The Thomas William Lasham Fund, Founder Benefactor, 2001
© Courtesy of the copyright holder

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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Bangwis village, Washkuk Hills, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea

Accession Number
2001.409

Department
Pacific Art

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Physical description
The painting depicts the bright red mature fruit of the ‘female’ (mima) variety of bodii tree, one of the artist’s totems. The bright red fruits are represented by the three pairs of black roundels positioned at the top, centre and bottom of the design respectively. Two large black ovoid forms in the centre of the bark represent the tree’s trunk, and two serpentine white lines that wind around the fruit and trunk are the branches from which the fruit hang.

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