35mm slide (photographic)(colour)
- Museum number
- Oc,F.T.6014
- Description
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Slide (colour); a formation of male gol dancers performing during Komblo tribe’s Pig Festival in 1979. The dancers wear elaborate bird of paradise plume headdresses, acrylic fibre dancing aprons, pearl shell neck and waist ornaments, and cordyline rear coverings; they play hour-glass shaped drums. Two of the men also wear the long ceremonial fringed headdresses (peng) made only during the final stages of a Pig Festival. Photograph taken December 15th 1979, Kombulno, Wahgi Valley, Papua New Guinea.
- Production date
- February 1980
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.40 centimetres (image)
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Height: 5 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 3.60 centimetres (image)
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Width: 5 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1982 (circa)
- Acquisition notes
- Photographs taken during fieldwork to the Wahgi Valley, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea between May 1979 and August 1981.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,F.T.6014
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 39.8 FEB 80M4 (O'Hanlon Number)