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Object Number 2006.12.1.53.11
Display Title Blank frame
Descriptions
Object Description Michael Rockefeller negatives; Weake wakun; Plus X; 80 ASA; 35 negatives, 0-36, 1 blank
Classification
  • Documentary
Subject
  • People
Department Photographic
Date 6/11/1961
Artist Michael Clark Rockefeller
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea
Materials Negative, 35mm
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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In Halole's sili beginning of Weake's funeral; men have come to place the nyeraken aré on the little boy and stand ready to drape the child with cowrie strings
2006.12.1.53.1 In Halole's sili beginning of Weake's funeral; men have come to place the nyeraken aré on the little boy and stand ready to drape the child with cowrie strings
Documentary
New Guinea
mourning men
2006.12.1.53.24 mourning men
Documentary
New Guinea
Weake being draped with cowrie
2006.12.1.53.4 Weake being draped with cowrie
Documentary
New Guinea
Women are now mourning at the pia
2006.12.1.53.15 Women are now mourning at the pia
Documentary
New Guinea
a mourning woman
2006.12.1.53.22 a mourning woman
Documentary
New Guinea
Grieving women
2006.12.1.53.25 Grieving women
Documentary
Papua New Guinea
A man holds up one of the nyeraken aré in the men's group
2006.12.1.53.35 A man holds up one of the nyeraken aré in the men's group
Documentary
New Guinea
Funeral for ambushed child
2006.12.1.53.10 Funeral for ambushed child
Documentary
Papua New Guinea
Waeke being draped with cowrie
2006.12.1.53.8 Waeke being draped with cowrie
Documentary
New Guinea
Beginning of Weake's funeral
2006.12.1.53.3 Beginning of Weake's funeral
Documentary
New Guinea
From beside some of Waeke's playmates down the length of the sili
2006.12.1.53.13 From beside some of Waeke's playmates down the length of the sili
Documentary
New Guinea
Grieving women
2006.12.1.53.28 Grieving women
Documentary
Papua New Guinea