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Object Number 2006.12.1.55.24
Display Title Overexposed image
Descriptions
Object Description Michael Rockefeller negatives; Weake Wakum feast #2; Plus X; 80 ASA; 31 negatives, 1-36, 5 blank
Classification
  • Documentary
Subject
  • People
Department Photographic
Date 6/12/1961
Artist Michael Clark Rockefeller
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea
Dimensions Overall: 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Family of Michael C. Rockefeller
Provenance
Donor Mary R. Morgan

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
men starting a fire
2006.12.1.55.25 men starting a fire
Documentary
New Guinea
cleaning out the haksé pit
2006.12.1.55.28 cleaning out the haksé pit
Documentary
New Guinea
making the haksé in the back sili
2006.12.1.56.1 making the haksé in the back sili
Documentary
New Guinea
Molaré picking Weaké's bones out of the ashes of his fire
2006.12.1.55.14 Molaré picking Weaké's bones out of the ashes of his fire
Documentary
New Guinea
Girl with fingers missing
2006.12.1.55.23 Girl with fingers missing
Documentary
New Guinea
The ashes from Weaké's funeral pyre are in the center
2006.12.1.55.4 The ashes from Weaké's funeral pyre are in the center
Documentary
New Guinea
women distributing the sus to a group of women
2006.12.1.55.1 women distributing the sus to a group of women
Documentary
New Guinea
men are seated
2006.12.1.54.21 men are seated
Documentary
New Guinea
men arranging stones in the haksé
2006.12.1.54.10 men arranging stones in the haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
men and women fix haksé
2006.12.1.54.18 men and women fix haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
men reaching for hot stones to put into haksé
2006.12.1.54.8 men reaching for hot stones to put into haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
men and women at work on the hakse
2006.12.1.54.6 men and women at work on the hakse
Documentary
New Guinea