Women crouched, keeping themselves warm near the fire

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Object Number 2006.16.1.18.7

Display Title Women crouched, keeping themselves warm near the fire

Descriptions

Object Description Robert Gardner negative taken during Harvard Peabody New Guinea Expedition; Wakun #1; Plus X; women ms; wailing as Yonokma burns

Classification

Documentary

Department Photographic

Date 7/6/1961

Artist Robert G. Gardner

Culture

Dani

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Oceania / New Guinea

Materials Negative, black and white

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

Credit Line Gift of Robert Gardner

Provenance

Donor Robert G. Gardner

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Object Number	Title	Classification	Geography/Provenience
2006.16.1.18.13	Women near the dead fire on which Yonokma was cremated	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.18.17	A woman picks Yonokma's bone out of the dead fire while men mourn	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.18.2	Early morning after Yonokma's funeral, four women sit by the dead fire that burned Yonokma	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.18.14	Women picking bones out of the dead fire on which Yonokma was cremated	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.18.11	Women seated around the dead fire from Yonokma's funeral and the sus which was to be distributed that day	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.15.28	Women wailing at Yonokma's funeral as he burns on the pyre	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.18.31	Woluklek has found a mouse near a fence	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.18.34	A man inspects a mouse in his hands	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.18.32	A mouse held in someone's hands	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.18.12	Women around the sus in Abulupak the morning after Yonokma's funeral	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.17.36	Women mourn around Yonokma's corpse at his funeral	Documentary	New Guinea
2006.16.1.17.33	Three women grouped around Yonokma's corpse at his funeral	Documentary	New Guinea

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