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Object Number 2006.12.1.21.17
Display Title Men sit around the steaming haksé
Descriptions
Object Description Michael Rockefeller negatives; funeral; PLUS X; 160 ASA; 34 negatives
Classification
  • Documentary
Department Photographic
Date 4/27/1961
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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Men sit around the steaming haksé, women sit in a group beyond
2006.12.1.21.22 Men sit around the steaming haksé, women sit in a group beyond
Documentary
New Guinea
Men sit around the steaming haksé, women sit in a group beyond
2006.12.1.21.21 Men sit around the steaming haksé, women sit in a group beyond
Documentary
New Guinea
Men sit around the steaming haksé
2006.12.1.21.16 Men sit around the steaming haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
Men sit around the steaming haksé
2006.12.1.21.18 Men sit around the steaming haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
Men sit around the steaming haksé
2006.12.1.21.15 Men sit around the steaming haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
Men tending to the haksé
2006.12.1.21.27 Men tending to the haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
Men begin to open the haksé
2006.12.1.21.29 Men begin to open the haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
Men covering the top of the haksé with hay
2006.12.1.21.12 Men covering the top of the haksé with hay
Documentary
New Guinea
Robert Gardner (left) watches as men heat stones to use in a haksé
2006.12.1.21.2 Robert Gardner (left) watches as men heat stones to use in a haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
Men lifting stones from a fire, to be put into the haksé
2006.12.1.21.5 Men lifting stones from a fire, to be put into the haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
Men lifting stones from a fire, to be put into the haksé
2006.12.1.21.4 Men lifting stones from a fire, to be put into the haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
Men lifting stones from a fire, to be put into the haksé
2006.12.1.21.7 Men lifting stones from a fire, to be put into the haksé
Documentary
New Guinea