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Object Number
2004.29.22657
Display Title
Tambu belt, dance mask and smoking pipe
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on board: "New Guinea / New Guinea / 31. Tambu, (money) belt - New Britain / 3. Dance Mask - lower Ramu Valley / 5. Smoking pipe - Upper Ramu Valley / The tobacco - native grown - is rollded / like a cigar & inserted in one End / of the bamboo. The other end being / placed in the mouth & the smoke / drawn in / papua New Guinea / Rec'd from: / Dr. W. L. Moss / Univ. of Georgia / 1932."
Department
Photographic
Date
1928-1929
Artist
Dr. W. L. Moss
Culture
- New Guinea
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Papua New Guinea
/
<State>
/
<County>
/
<City>
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Ramu River
Oceania / New Guinea
Oceania / Papua New Guinea / <State> / New Britain
Oceania / New Guinea
Oceania / Papua New Guinea / <State> / New Britain
Additional Geographic Terms
Lower Ramu Valley; Upper Ramu Valley
Dimensions
Overall: 11.43 × 8.255 cm (4 1/2 × 3 1/4 in.)
Provenance
Donor
Donated by
Dr. W. L. Moss
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| 2004.29.22654 | Stone axes |
New Guinea
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| 2004.29.22662 | Dance emblem, ax and neck rest |
Sepik
Wuvulu Island Ramu River | ||
| 2004.29.22652 | Dance ornament and headdress |
New Britain
Admirality islands | ||
| 2004.29.22656 | Food dish |
Madang Province
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| 2004.29.22658 | Pine apple club and disc club |
New Guinea
| ||
| 2004.29.22659 | Bags and food ladle |
New Guinea
| ||
| 2004.29.22655 | Food bowls and coconut oil bottle |
New Guinea
| ||
| 2004.29.22650 | Woman's dress |
Admirality islands
| ||
| 2004.29.22649 | Sepik River table |
Sepik
| ||
| 2004.29.22651 | Dance emblem |
Sepik
| ||
| 2004.29.22653 | Hair combs and obsidian daggers |
Admirality islands
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| 2004.29.22661 | Chief's emblem of office |
Wuvulu Island
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