35mm slide (photographic)(colour)
- Museum number
- Oc,F.T.6022
- Description
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Slide (colour); married women dance as part of the Wahgi Pig Festival. Traditionally, married women decorated and danced only on the Festival’s final day, when the pigs they cared for were killed. By the 1970s, when this photograph was taken, married women occasionally decorated and danced in parallel performances to those of the men. The women wear forehead circlets of red Pesquet’s Parrot feathers, dancing aprons, and cordyline rear coverings. Behind them is a stack of wood, arranged criss-cross, with which the pigs will be cooked when they are killed the following month. 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 on 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.6022
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 39.15 FEB 80M4 (O'Hanlon Number)
