photographic print(black and white);
postcard
- Museum number
- Oc,B102.20
- Description
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Postcard printed with a photograph (black and white); photograph of a young Elema man outdoors wearing an eharo mask; he also wears a plant fibre shoulder coverings and cloth wrap, as well as having his body painted; grass, trees and hills behind him; Purari Delta; Papua New Guinea.
- Production date
- 1900-1930
- Dimensions
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Height: 14 centimetres
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Width: 8.70 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
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According to Jan Hasselberg in 2021, the series of masked dancers in the series of images by Gibson Studio were taken in Port Moresby, not in the Gulf where the masks and possibly the dances are from.
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Related image: Image Oc,102.19 is the same; these men with masks are also in image Oc,B102.23.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- Index card with acquisition note states:
"26 NEW GUINEA POSTCARDS
purchasd from mr A. H. Barton
[….]
P.T.O
No information except that they were acquired by the lender's uncle (his father's brother) in New Guinea, between 1932 - 36.
D.C. Starzecka 5/3/77"
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,B102.20