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Object Number
2006.12.1.53.4
Display Title
Weake being draped with cowrie
Descriptions
Object Description
Michael Rockefeller negatives; Weake wakun; Plus X; 80 ASA; 35 negatives, 0-36, 1 blank
Classification
- Documentary
Department
Photographic
Date
6/11/1961
Artist
Michael Clark Rockefeller
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
New Guinea
Materials
Negative, 35mm
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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PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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| 2006.12.1.53.5 | Weake being draped with cowrie |
Documentary
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New Guinea
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| 2006.12.1.53.1 | In Halole's sili beginning of Weake's funeral; men have come to place the nyeraken aré on the little boy and stand ready to drape the child with cowrie strings |
Documentary
|
New Guinea
| |
| 2006.12.1.53.8 | Waeke being draped with cowrie |
Documentary
|
New Guinea
| |
| 2006.12.1.53.6 | Waeke being draped with cowrie |
Documentary
|
New Guinea
| |
| 2006.12.1.53.32 | Molaré standing out in front of Weaké |
Documentary
|
New Guinea
| |
| 2006.12.1.53.2 | Beginning of Weake's funeral |
Documentary
|
New Guinea
| |
| 2006.12.1.53.3 | Beginning of Weake's funeral |
Documentary
|
New Guinea
| |
| 2006.12.1.53.11 | Blank frame |
Documentary
|
Papua New Guinea
| |
| 2006.12.1.53.9 | Funeral for ambushed child |
Documentary
|
Papua New Guinea
| |
| 2006.12.1.66.8 | Okal in back of the sili in the banana trees near the waroleget; one of the boys who was with Weake |
Documentary
|
New Guinea
| |
| 2006.12.1.53.13 | From beside some of Waeke's playmates down the length of the sili |
Documentary
|
New Guinea
| |
| 2006.12.1.53.24 | mourning men |
Documentary
|
New Guinea
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