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Object Number 2006.12.1.65.35
Display Title A man with a cowrie shell
Descriptions
Object Description Michael Rockefeller negatives; Weake funeral; hiperi feast; Tri X; strip includes 3 negatives, 35-37
Classification
  • Documentary
Department Photographic
Date 6/11/1961-6/12/1961
Artist Michael Clark Rockefeller
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / New Guinea
Dimensions Overall: 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Family of Michael C. Rockefeller
Provenance
Donor Mary R. Morgan

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
cowrie shell is lifted up and looked at
2006.12.1.58.27 cowrie shell is lifted up and looked at
Documentary
New Guinea
Wereklowe holds up a cowrie shell
2006.12.1.58.28 Wereklowe holds up a cowrie shell
Documentary
New Guinea
cowrie shell is given to the person
2006.12.1.58.29 cowrie shell is given to the person
Documentary
New Guinea
Wereklowe holds up a cowrie shell
2006.12.1.58.31 Wereklowe holds up a cowrie shell
Documentary
New Guinea
Woman mourning
2006.12.1.61.36 Woman mourning
Documentary
New Guinea
Men looking at cowrie shell strands at Ekiarotmilek's funeral
2006.12.1.27.5 Men looking at cowrie shell strands at Ekiarotmilek's funeral
Documentary
New Guinea
Hands working at something in the honai
2006.12.1.67.1 Hands working at something in the honai
Documentary
New Guinea
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
A man being carried home along the trail from Homoak to Wuperainma
2006.12.1.22.29 A man being carried home along the trail from Homoak to Wuperainma
Documentary
New Guinea
cowrie shell is given to the person
2006.12.1.58.30 cowrie shell is given to the person
Documentary
New Guinea
Wereklowe holds up a cowrie shell
2006.12.1.58.33 Wereklowe holds up a cowrie shell
Documentary
New Guinea
Wereklowe holds up a cowrie shell
2006.12.1.58.32 Wereklowe holds up a cowrie shell
Documentary
New Guinea