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Object Number
2004.29.22721
Display Title
Women dressed to dance at the funeral of a chief
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on board: "New Guinea (British) / Papua / Collingwood Bay / Ninof Village / Village of Ninof, Collingwood Bay / Papua British New Guinea / Stetson Fund, June 1911. / Women dressed to dance at funeral of a chief. Nonof. / The only tribe known where women dress in men's war plumes."
Department
Photographic
Date
1885-1911
Culture
- New Guinea
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
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Papua New Guinea
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Oro Province
Additional Geographic Terms
Ninof Village, Collingwood Bay
Dimensions
Overall: 10.795 × 15.24 cm (4 1/4 × 6 in.)
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PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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| 2004.29.22719 | Women dressed to dance at the funeral of a chief |
Oro Province
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| 2004.29.22720 | Women dancing at the funeral of a chief |
Oro Province
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| 2004.29.23104 | Chief dressed for dance |
British New Guinea
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| 2004.29.23105 | Chief dressed for dance |
British New Guinea
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| 2004.29.23102 | Boy dressed for his first dance |
British New Guinea
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| 2004.29.23125 | Man of chiefly descent dressed for hunting or fighting |
British New Guinea
| ||
| 2004.29.23123 | Man wearing war plumes ornamented with shells |
British New Guinea
| ||
| 2004.29.22735 | Feast |
British New Guinea
| ||
| 2004.29.22738 | women unloading canoes |
British New Guinea
| ||
| 2004.29.23126 | Taboo erected by chief |
British New Guinea
| ||
| 2004.29.23137 | Man finishing a landing net |
British New Guinea
| ||
| 2004.29.23136 | Wanigera dance |
British New Guinea
|