Looking down on the backs of women

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Object Number 2006.15.1.32.28

Display Title Looking down on the backs of women

Descriptions

Object Description Jan Broekhuijse negatives taken during Harvard Peabody New Guinea Expedition; Wakun Weake #4; 36 negatives; Tri X

Classification

Documentary

Department Photographic

Date 6/10/1961

Artist Jan Broekhuyse

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Oceania / New Guinea

Materials Negative, 35mm

Dimensions Overall: 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Jan Broekhuijse

Provenance

Donor Jan Broekhuyse

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PrimaryMedia	Object Number	Title	Classification	Geography/Provenience
	2006.15.1.37.30	circle of women; their backs bent over	Documentary	New Guinea
	2006.15.1.16.30	children on women's backs going to Etai	Documentary	New Guinea
	2006.15.1.30.13	Down towards the honai over the heads of the women	Documentary	New Guinea
Media Restricted	2006.15.1.32.20	Looking down on the chair	Documentary	New Guinea
	2006.15.1.29.23	Distance shot of entire sili from near its entrance	Documentary	New Guinea
	2006.15.1.31.25	Apusa walkind down to a garden ditch	Documentary	New Guinea
	2006.15.1.37.32	women bend over the hakse	Documentary	New Guinea
Media Restricted	2006.15.1.32.30	Weake with women round him	Documentary	New Guinea
Media Restricted	2006.15.1.30.1	Beginning of funeral for Weaké; a few women gathered; the boy in the pia at the end of the shot	Documentary	New Guinea
	2006.15.1.29.2	A man arranges something on Weaké; over heads of women; fixing cowrie shells	Documentary	New Guinea
Media Restricted	2006.15.1.28.1	From on top of hunu down on the tops the heads of women; the pia; men's group in background	Documentary	New Guinea
	2006.15.1.32.3	The back of head and shoulders of woman; her hair plastered with mud	Documentary	New Guinea

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