Description & Technical information
Midi or Middi are quite rare in collections. Notable examples are : Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (ex Van den Abbeele, Ex Gal. Meyer) ; Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford ; Australian Museum, Sydney ; Museum of Victoria, Melbourne ; Linden Museum Stuttgart ; Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Köln ; and a small number in private collections : Voyageurs & Curieux, Paris ; Collection Mis, Bruxelles ; private collection, the Netherlands ; etc.
Provenance: Private collection, the Netherlands (acquired from the Dutch tribal art dealer Frans Faber in December 2023).
Literature: See photographes by Richard Parkinson of the Man named Turadawai wearing a midi, Gazelle Peninsular, New Britain, Papua New Guinea 1894; and the Richard Parkinson photographe of two Midi from the Dresden Museum collection.
See :
Pfeiffer, Ludwig: DIE STEINZEITLICHE MUSCHELTECHNIK UND IHRE BEZIEHUNGEN ZUR GEGENWART. Gustav Fischer, Jena. 1914.
Lautz, Thomas: FEDERGELD UND MUSCHELKETTEN. Geldgeschichlichen Museum der Kreissparkasse, Köln. 1992.
Heermann, Ingrid & Menter, Ulrich : Schmuck der Sudsee. Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Prestel, 1999
Heermann, Ingrid (ed.) FORM COLOR INSPIRATION, Oceanic Art from New Britain. Arnoldsche, Stuttgart, Linden Museum, Stuttgart, 2001.
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