Women wailing at Yonokma's funeral as he burns on the pyre

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Object Number 2006.16.1.15.29

Display Title Women wailing at Yonokma's funeral as he burns on the pyre

Descriptions

Object Description Robert Gardner negative taken during Harvard Peabody New Guinea Expedition; Wakun #1; Plus X; women ms; wailing as Yonokma burns; a woman reaches out towards the fire

Classification

Documentary

Department Photographic

Date 7/6/1961

Artist Robert G. Gardner

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Oceania / New Guinea

Materials Photograph

Credit Line Gift of Robert Gardner

Provenance

Donor Robert G. Gardner

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Object Number	Title	Classification	Geography/Provenience
2006.16.1.15.28	Women wailing at Yonokma's funeral as he burns on the pyre	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.15.30	A woman, mourning, reaches out towards Yonokma on the burning funeral pyre	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.16.24	Past men towards the pia at Yonokma's funeral	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.18.2	Early morning after Yonokma's funeral, four women sit by the dead fire that burned Yonokma	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.18.23	View of Abulupak, looking toward the Tukumba, in the morning after Yonokma's funeral	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.18.11	Women seated around the dead fire from Yonokma's funeral and the sus which was to be distributed that day	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.18.12	Women around the sus in Abulupak the morning after Yonokma's funeral	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.17.36	Women mourn around Yonokma's corpse at his funeral	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.17.33	Three women grouped around Yonokma's corpse at his funeral	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.18.21	View of Abulupak the morning after Yonokma's funeral	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.16.1	Men mourning at Yonokma's funeral	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.16.33	Portrait of Yohonoroik watching procedures at Yonokma's funeral	Documentary	New Guinea

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