Siluk looking for mice

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Object Number 2006.17.1.32.1

Display Title Siluk looking for mice

Descriptions

Object Description Karl Heider negatives taken during Harvard Peabody New Guinea Expedition; axes; 12 negatives; Isopan ISS

Classification

Documentary

Department Photographic

Date 7/20/1961

Artist Karl G. Heider

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Oceania / New Guinea

Materials Negative, black and white

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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Object Number	Title	Classification	Geography/Provenience
2006.17.1.32.2	Portrait of Siluk	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.17.1.15.7	Siluk cleaning the haské pit	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.17.1.16.3	Siluk making a haksé in Abukulmo - he throws the straw out on all sides	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.18.1.28.20	Samuel Putnam negatives, New Guinea; Siluk clearing a ditch; about to heave an enormous piece of mud up onto the side	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.15.1.27.7	Apeori and Yegé Asuk and Polik all looking for mice	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.17.1.171.17	small bundle tied to front left center pole. to protect pole from mice? or for curing?	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.15.1.25.1	3 young boys taking the guts out of mice, which will be cooked and eaten	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.15.1.25.2	3 young boys taking the guts out of mice, which will be cooked and eaten	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.15.1.26.26	The mice bundles that have been cooking in the haksé are opened; going to be eaten	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.15.1.26.28	A boy eats one of the mice	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.15.1.27.27	Young boy goes over the fence into the back sili of Abulupak to singe the mice	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.15.1.27.6	Itlai and his daughter watch as the men hunt for mice	Documentary	New Guinea

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