Object Number: Ea12742

Collection: World Cultures

Object Name: painting

Title: Woman and Pig

Artist: Kauage, Mathias

Description: 'Woman and Pig' showing a Highland woman with a pig and two billums/net bags. Inscription in Neo-Melanesian explains the image: 'Dispela meri pik bilong em sik na karim marsin em igo long em sik, gipim, na kam bek'; 'this woman, her pig was sick and she took it to the hospital and gave medicine and came back.' This is a very early painting by the artist and he knew the woman. The simple flower is an early version of a recurring motif. Acrylic on paper Signed bottom left Kauage 1992 Artist: Mathias Kauage

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