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Object Number 2004.29.23171
Display Title Men in canoes
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "New Guinea / Upper Sepik River / Near Village of Wogumas. / Natives in Canoes. / Photo - W. L. Moss"
Department Photographic
Date 1928-1929
Artist Dr. W. L. Moss
Culture
  • Wogumas
  • Upper Sepik
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea / <State> / <County> / <City> / Wagumas
Dimensions Overall: 24.13 × 19.05 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)

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Men in canoes
2004.29.23170 Men in canoes
Wagumas
Group of men
2004.29.23169 Group of men
Wagumas
People in canoes
2004.24.31407.1 People in canoes
Tactic
People in canoes with carved figureheads
2004.29.23078 People in canoes with carved figureheads
Timbunke
Men with adzes
2004.29.22792 Men with adzes
Sepik
Men in front of house
2004.29.22788 Men in front of house
Sepik
Men in long canoe
2004.29.22793 Men in long canoe
Papua New Guinea
Media Restricted
2004.29.22879 Group of people in front of a house
Nyourangai
Sepik
Men wearing sheaths of gourd and bamboo
2004.29.22791 Men wearing sheaths of gourd and bamboo
Sepik
Men with egret plume headdresses
2004.29.22789 Men with egret plume headdresses
Sepik
Men armed with spears
2004.29.22790 Men armed with spears
Sepik
Men walking towards bachelor house
2004.29.22772 Men walking towards bachelor house
Sepik