photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,B121.28
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); a pig on the ground after cooking over an open fire, in preparation for banahivi (a feast related to mourning); a Massim man is seen tending the cooked pig, with a child and a forest visible in the background; Wagawaga, Papua New Guinea.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 1903-1904
- Dimensions
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Height: 7.90 centimetres (image)
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Height: 7.90 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 10.20 centimetres (image)
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Width: 10.20 centimetres (mount)
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- Curator's comments
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This photograph is from a collection of images taken during the Cooke-Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1903-1904.
The collection has no acquisition details, but was found with a number of papers, letters and language term lists seemingly connected to C. G. Seligman, which have been created into an EthDoc. Several hair specimens were also found amongst the letters.
A number of the photographs in the collection were found in brown ‘G.B.K’ envelopes. The envelopes have a variety of handwritten numbers (in red ink, black ink, pencil, and/or blue pencil) which are believed to refer to a BM inventory number (given at an unknown date presumably after the collection came to the BM), as well as some descriptive notes which locate where the images were photographed.
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Related image: Oc,B121.27 and 28 were in the same envelope. Also, see images Oc,B120.25 and 138, as well as Oc,B121.27 and Oc,G.T.1987 and Oc,G.T.2360 for related banahivi images, depicting the same scene at a different stage and the same people.
Terminology: there is an account of "banahivi" in: Seligmann, C. G.; 1910; The Melanesians of British New Guinea; University Press; pp. 620 - 623. "Bonahivi" is a feast related to mourning.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Cooke-Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1903-1904
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,B121.28
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 2175 (BM inventory number)