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Sentani people Woman's skirt cloth [saboiboi] Woman's ceremonial skirt with anthropomorphic designs late 19th-early 20th century Papua Province Western New Guinea beaten barkcloth (tapa), pigments felting, painting 127.0 (h) x 57.0 (w) cm Max Ernst Collection, purchased 1985 NGA 1985.1870 Provenance collected by Pierre Viot 1920s; collection Pierre Loeb, Paris; bought by Max Ernst; by descent to his widow, Dorothea Tanning, in 1976; to Douglas Ewing, New York, in 1983; from whom bought by the Australian National Gallery, October 1985 Provenance < BACK