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Object Number 2006.17.1.18.5
Display Title Men chopping lumber
Descriptions
Object Description Karl Heider negatives taken during Harvard Peabody New Guinea Expedition; Eak Wakun #4; 12 negatives; Plus X
Classification
  • Documentary
Department Photographic
Date 7/1/1961
Artist Karl G. Heider
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / New Guinea
Dimensions Overall: 5.715 x 5.715 cm (2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Karl G. Heider
Provenance
Donor Karl G. Heider

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
men chopping lumber
2006.17.1.18.6 men chopping lumber
Documentary
New Guinea
Constructing the funeral pyre
2006.17.1.19.5 Constructing the funeral pyre
Documentary
New Guinea
Media Restricted
2006.17.1.19.6 Men carrying Eak
Documentary
New Guinea
Lumber and back of men's house
2006.17.1.195.10 Lumber and back of men's house
Documentary
New Guinea
Eak's funeral
2006.17.1.20.3 Eak's funeral
Documentary
New Guinea
Eak burning on funeral pyre
2006.17.1.19.1 Eak burning on funeral pyre
Documentary
New Guinea
a woman carries old lumber from the old hunu to the new hunu
2006.17.1.6.12 a woman carries old lumber from the old hunu to the new hunu
Documentary
New Guinea
Siba shaping a piece of lumber
2006.17.1.70.4 Siba shaping a piece of lumber
Documentary
New Guinea
Building a haksé
2006.17.1.17.5 Building a haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
Wood being brought to the funeral pyre that will burn Eak
2006.17.1.18.8 Wood being brought to the funeral pyre that will burn Eak
Documentary
New Guinea
Media Restricted
2006.17.1.19.3 Eak is put on the funeral pyre by Tuessiké and others
Documentary
New Guinea
Asikanilep splitting wood
2006.17.1.17.2 Asikanilep splitting wood
Documentary
New Guinea