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Object Number 2004.29.22722
Display Title Portrait of tattooed girl
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "New Guinea (British) / Papua / Collingwood Bay / Uiaku Village / Village of Uiaku, Collingwood Bay / Papua (British New Guinea) / Stetson Fund, June 1911. / Tattooed girl."
Department Photographic
Date 1885-1911
Culture
  • New Guinea
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea / Oro Province
Additional Geographic Terms Uiaku Village, Collingwood Bay
Dimensions Overall: 15.24 × 10.795 cm (6 × 4 1/4 in.)

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