A Massim Club, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, (early…
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A Massim Club, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, (early twentieth century), carved hardwood and natural earth pigments, 63 cm long. Provenance: Muriel Larner, Cairns. Acquired from above by Dr Peter Elliott, 1970. Exhibited: Art of Massim Region of Papua New Guinea, Wollongong City Gallery, 16 October - 6 November 1980, cat. no. 146. Travelling to Australian Museum, Sydney, Victorian Museum, Melbourne. Literature: Harry Beran, Massim Tribal Art Papua New Guinea, Wollongong City Gallery, 1980, pg. 13

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  • Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.

    The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 ? 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910.

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