Urama; Spirit board, gope; TC 343
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Spirit board, gope
Urama
19th/20th century
Wood, pigment
TC 343

This board was photographed in Kinomere village by Thomas Schultze-Westrum. See the photograph here and illustrated in Schultze-Westrum 1972: figure 50. The Australian explorer Frank Hurley visited this village twice in 1921 and 1923 and took photographs. Another object in the Tomkins Colelction, TC 421 is also seen in this photograph.

Provenance:
John Friede, New York 2006
Collected by Thomas Schultze-Westrum 1960s