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Mother weeps as her child's corpse is laid on a funeral pyre
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Object Number 2004.24.31743
Display Title Mother weeps as her child's corpse is laid on a funeral pyre
Descriptions
Object Description copyright film study center
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • People and Family
  • Burial and Cremation
Subject
  • Funeral
  • Mother
  • Child
Department Photographic
Date 1961
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Melanesia
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / New Guinea
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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