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Object Number 2006.37.1.23.22
Display Title Asuk sticking out his tongue
Descriptions
Object Description Eliot Elisofon negatives taken during Harvard Peabody New Guinea Expedition; 33 negatives; 35mm Kodak Plus X Pan Film/Kodak Safety Film
Classification
  • Documentary
Department Photographic
Date 1961
Artist Mr. Eliot Elisofon
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / New Guinea
Materials Negative
Credit Line Gift of Jill and Elin Elisofon
Provenance
Donor Elin Elisofon

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Portrait of Asuk
2006.37.1.32.19 Portrait of Asuk
Documentary
New Guinea
Eliot Elisofon shows a man how to look thru his camera
2006.37.1.42.4 Eliot Elisofon shows a man how to look thru his camera
Documentary
New Guinea
Eliot Elisofon showing his camera to some people in the sili; Abukulmo
2006.37.1.41.34 Eliot Elisofon showing his camera to some people in the sili; Abukulmo
Documentary
New Guinea
Eliot Elisofon tugs at a man's beard and in return is tugged on his own
2006.37.1.42.5 Eliot Elisofon tugs at a man's beard and in return is tugged on his own
Documentary
New Guinea
Asuk clowning for Elisofon
2006.37.1.23.23 Asuk clowning for Elisofon
Documentary
New Guinea
Polik, Asuk and Michael Rockefeller
2006.37.1.23.24 Polik, Asuk and Michael Rockefeller
Documentary
New Guinea
Hanomoak on his way out
2006.37.1.25.3 Hanomoak on his way out
Documentary
New Guinea
Eliot Elisofon showing his camera to a man in the sili; Abukulmo
2006.37.1.41.36 Eliot Elisofon showing his camera to a man in the sili; Abukulmo
Documentary
New Guinea
Yegé Asuk
2006.37.1.18.22 Yegé Asuk
Documentary
New Guinea
Visiting man on his way out
2006.37.1.25.4 Visiting man on his way out
Documentary
New Guinea
Old man in a hunu; sitting on his haunches
2006.37.1.41.23 Old man in a hunu; sitting on his haunches
Documentary
New Guinea
Nilik in his seed head dress
2006.37.1.17.27 Nilik in his seed head dress
Documentary
New Guinea