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Object Number 2006.12.1.55.28
Display Title cleaning out the haksé pit
Descriptions
Object Description Michael Rockefeller negatives; Weake Wakum feast #2; Plus X; 80 ASA; 31 negatives, 1-36, 5 blank
Classification
  • Documentary
Department Photographic
Date 6/12/1961
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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
making the haksé in the back sili
2006.12.1.56.1 making the haksé in the back sili
Documentary
New Guinea
making the haksé
2006.12.1.54.20 making the haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
women at work on a haksé
2006.12.1.54.1 women at work on a haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
Molaré picking Weaké's bones out of the ashes of his fire
2006.12.1.55.14 Molaré picking Weaké's bones out of the ashes of his fire
Documentary
New Guinea
beginning to wind the vine around the haksé
2006.12.1.54.12 beginning to wind the vine around the haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
men arranging stones in the haksé
2006.12.1.54.10 men arranging stones in the haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
getting ready to close the haksé
2006.12.1.54.11 getting ready to close the haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
putting stones on the haksé
2006.12.1.54.16 putting stones on the haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
men and women fix haksé
2006.12.1.54.18 men and women fix haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
woman putting stones and arranging them inside haksé
2006.12.1.54.4 woman putting stones and arranging them inside haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
women at work on a haksé
2006.12.1.54.2 women at work on a haksé
Documentary
New Guinea
a man helps as the women put stones into haksé
2006.12.1.54.3 a man helps as the women put stones into haksé
Documentary
New Guinea