photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,B101.50
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); men outdoors to perform a dance or ritual; they wear variously, feather headdresses, woven net wigs, bailer shells on their foreheads, bailer shells or kina moa (red shield with kina in middle), on their chests, omaks (parallel bamboo sticks strung into a chest pendant), armbands and loin coverings, including pig's tail aprons and miscanthus flowers around their waists; they all hold various weapons such as bows and arrows and spears; Mount Hagen(?), Papua New Guinea.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.40 centimetres
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Width: 10.90 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This series of images, Oc,B101.47 through 80, were in a group together, an envelope with them reads: "Mr. Halls. Central Highlands, New Guinea". see PicDoc 203.
Related images: Oc,B105.35, and Oc,B105 generally.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,B101.50