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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
- People and Family
- Ethnographic
- Burial and Cremation
Subject
- Mother
- Funeral
- Child
Department
Photographic
Date
1961
Artist
Hillel S. Burger
Culture
- Melanesia
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
New Guinea
Materials
Negative, black and white
Dimensions
Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)
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