35mm slide (photographic)(colour)
- Museum number
- Oc,F.T.5943
- Description
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Slide (colour); one of a sequence of photographs illustrating the process of a Wahgi man (Kinden Kulam) decorating to dance in the Pig Festival. Here Kinden inserts his rear covering of cordyline leaves under his bark belt. Suspended directly behind him are the black bird of paradise plumes he will shortly add to his headdress. Photograph taken January 10th 1980, Topkalap, Wahgi Valley, Papua New Guinea.
- Production date
- February 1980
- Dimensions
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Height: 3.60 centimetres (image)
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Height: 5 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 2.40 centimetres (image)
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Width: 5 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Related information: this photograph was taken in the O'Hanlon's fieldwork house in the Wahgi Valley.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1982 (circa)
- Acquisition notes
- Photographs taken on during fieldwork to the Waghi Valley, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea between May 1979 and August 1981.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,F.T.5943
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 43.22 FEB80M6 (O'Hanlon Number)
