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Object Number 39-22-70/10859.1.127
Display Title Interior of house
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Melanesia / Sepik River Region - Mandata Territory, New Guinea / 39-22 / Interior of house. Kimindimbit"
Department Photographic
Date 1885-1939
Artist Mr. William A. Robinson
Culture
  • Sepik
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea / Sepik
Additional Geographic Terms Mandate Territory
Dimensions Overall: 8.89 × 13.6525 cm (3 1/2 × 5 3/8 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by Mr. William A. Robinson

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Doll, interior of house
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Interior of house
39-22-70/10859.1.136 Interior of house
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Interior of house, sleeping baskets
39-22-70/10859.1.141 Interior of house, sleeping baskets
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Entrance to interior of house
39-22-70/10859.1.159 Entrance to interior of house
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Wooden crocodile carving on beams of house
39-22-70/10859.1.160 Wooden crocodile carving on beams of house
Tambonum
House construction
39-22-70/10859.1.135 House construction
Sepik
House on stilts
39-22-70/10859.1.138 House on stilts
Sepik
Interior of barrack room with dancing masks
39-22-70/10859.1.104 Interior of barrack room with dancing masks
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Man, viewed from behind, beside ladder to house
39-22-70/10859.1.128 Man, viewed from behind, beside ladder to house
Sepik
Man holding head in front of ladder to house
39-22-70/10859.1.121 Man holding head in front of ladder to house
Sepik
Detail of carved crocodile on beam supporting a house
39-22-70/10859.1.169 Detail of carved crocodile on beam supporting a house
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House
39-22-70/10859.1.132 House
Sepik